" Mrs.Venable eagerly interrupted o emphasize the positive effects: "But it does pacify them, I've read that.When he found it locked, he jumped on a nearby Yamaha motorcycle (with a key in the ignition) and roared off through traffic at high speed to get to Alice.Rick impaled Imhotep in the chest with a sword, causing him to rapidly decay as he fell backwards into a detritus bog and sank into the swampy black bile.[Otto Preminger had originally wanted Duke Ellington'sSophisticated Ladyto be the film's theme.] After the black opening screen, society columnist Waldo Lydecker's (55 year old Clifton Webb in his sound-film debut - his last feature film had been the silentThe Heart of a Siren (1925)) off-screen voice intones, in a measured way, during the flashback.