She thought: "If the black book can bring dead people to life...," Rick added: "...then maybe the gold book can kill him." It was important for them to find where the gold book - the Book of Amun-Ra, was hidden.More plagues affected a chanting group of crazed Egyptians in the streets, with boils and sores, who broke down the museum""s doors and were led by Imhotep.]James Stewart established himself as a leading actor with this film, the one he is perhaps most identified with - and it was the fifth film he made in 1939.Suddenly, he water in the picture began to flow into the room, as Eustace conjectured: "It""s some kind of trick."The final sequence was the most memorable.The two men pursued an approaching freight train to escape to freedom.Cullen was able to get onto one of the moving cars, and locked hands with his white companion (a memorable image of black and white hands and arms locked together), but he could not pull the wounded Johnny up onto the moving train, as Johnny yelled out: "I can""t make it! I can""t make it!" So he sacrificed his own freedom and fell back off the train onto the ground.