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The Mummy

Name: The Mummy
Genre: Horror
Released: 1959-08-01
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 6.722

★ 6,7 /10 (264 Votes)

1959 EN 88 min

Overview

One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.

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01/08/1959

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264

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Torn from the tomb to terrify the world!

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Horror

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88 min

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Peter Cushing

John Banning

Christopher Lee

Kharis, the Mummy

Yvonne Furneaux

Isobel Banning / Princess Ananka

Eddie Byrne

Inspector Mulrooney

Felix Aylmer

Stephen Banning

Raymond Huntley

Joseph Whemple

George Pastell

Mehemet Bey

Michael Ripper

Poacher

George Woodbridge

Police Constable

Harold Goodwin

Pat

Denis Shaw

Mike

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Gerald Lawson

Irish Customer

Willoughby Gray

Dr. Reilly

John Stuart

Coroner

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David Browning

Police Sergeant

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Frank Sieman

Bill

Stanley Meadows

Attendant

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Frank Singuineau

Head Porter

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Gorgeous & Creepy Hammer Horror Winner. Hammer Film Productions rework some of the classic Universal Studios mummy material to great effect. Directed by Terence Fisher, this is not a remake of the seminal 1932 movie of the same name. Starring Peter Cushing (John Banning), Christopher Lee (Kharis/The Mummy), Raymond Huntley (Joseph Whemple) and Yvonne Furneaux (Isobel Banning/Princess Ananka), the film is written by Jimmy Sangster and was filmed at Bray & Shepperton Studios in England and is photographed in Eastman Color. I mention the latter because Eastman Color has a different hue to it,…

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While falling a bit short of the earlier Frankenstein and Dracula "reboots" from Hammer, this one is still quite good, again due to the talents of Fisher, Cushing, and Lee. It's story, while borrowing many elements from the 1940s Universal sequels, is quite good and this is probably the best version of the Kharis character ever filmed. Christopher Lee's interpretation brings an aggressive, monstrous, and emoting mummy, not the slow, lumbering version of the 1940s (apologies to Lon Chaney). A first rate offering from Hammer.

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