The best part of the film comes in the form of American Fred Clark who does his best PT Barnum impression as he continually explains how the crowds are going to eat this up. Several of the reels are bogged down with storytelling exposition and are rather unremarkable in general. The film moves along rather quickly for its allowed time, but the mummy in question does not appear until the film is almost over. The film is lacking in showmanship overall and the violence is somewhat subdued, including a scene where Bey’s head is stepped on like a grape (off-screen, of course). The centrepiece of the film involves the slain professor’s daughter, Annette (Jeanne Roland) and her fiancée John (Ronald Howard), but a mysterious stranger finagles his way into their relationship in the form of Adam Beauchamp (Terence Morgan), and he has other things on his mind.Ī tense moment from The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (Hammer 1964) Besides lacking the star power of a Peter Cushing or the presence of a Christopher Lee, the film feels like a poor substitute for Hammer’s earlier effort, The Mummy (1959) as it limps along with its mostly unlikable cast. On paper this sounds exciting enough, but unfortunately Carreras’ pedestrian direction is unable to inject any life into the film.

The Egyptians are, of course, unhappy with the actions of the Egyptologists and when they learn of the plans of American entrepreneur Alexander King (Fred Clark) to ship everything back to London and take it on a touring sideshow, the ever familiar face of Hashmi Bey (George Pastell) tries to plead with them, warning them of the ever present curse of the mummy’s tomb, but King will have none of it, thus allowing the mummy to wreak havoc on those that refused to listen. The man is Professor Eugene Dubois (Bernard Rebel) and he is the leader of an expedition that has been cleaning out the tomb of Prince Ra-Antef (Dickie Owen). The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb begins with an interesting scene of an archeologist being chased through the desert and then being tied to two poles his hand is lopped off with one clean cut.

Written by Henry Younger (Michael Carreras). Arguably something of a misfire from the Hammer House of Horror…ĭirected and produced by Michael Carreras.

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