All the mummy movies7/4/2023 ![]() Every time the film builds up some speed, it cuts to a flashback, and therefore removing any sort of suspense. The film doesn’t hold up to the glorious sweep of colours found in Terence Fisher’s The Mummy (1959) and because it lacks any of its usual stars (apart from ever reliable Michael Ripper) it doesn’t quite feel like a full blooded Hammer production, the only sign it is, comes from a few gory limb removals and stabbings. Clark plays the American showman as heavy handed as possible, eating up the rest of the cast, and Terence Morgan is an Egyptologist who harbours a surprising secret. ![]() Much of the film goes by without a mummy shuffling about at all, but when it is revived, it creates the customary chaos, leading to an excellent finale in the dank murk of the sewers of London. ![]() Naturally the Pharaohs’ tomb is stumbled upon, but this time the Ancient Ones’ sarcophagus gets sold to a brash American showman, Alexander King (Fred Clark), for displaying in London. “You cannot run away from the curse of the mummy’s tomb!!” this is quite true, especially in a scenario involving an unwitting team of explorers, the Egyptian desert and the Pharaoh Ra-Antef. ![]() Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (1964, Michael Carreras)
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