The Mummy's Hand (1940)
Out-of-work archaeologists face ancient curses and deadly mummies. Fans of Indiana Jones and horror will be thrilled.
Genres: Horror, Fantasy
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The Mummy's Hand(1940)
Overview
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician and his beautiful daughter, they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest and the living mummy Kharis who are the guardians of Ananka’s tomb.
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Dick Foran
Steve Banning
Peggy Moran
Marta Solvani
Wallace Ford
Babe Jenson
Eduardo Ciannelli
The High Priest
George Zucco
Professor Andoheb
Cecil Kellaway
The Great Solvani
Charles Trowbridge
Dr. Petrie
Tom Tyler
The Mummy
Sig Arno
The Beggar-Henchman
Eddie Foster
Egyptian Starting Fight
Harry Stubbs
Bartender
Michael Mark
Bazaar Owner
Mara Tartar
Girl Vendor
Leon Belasco
Ali
Jerry Frank
Egyptian Thug (uncredited)
Frank Lackteen
Temple Priest (uncredited)
Murdock MacQuarrie
Temple Priest (uncredited)
Anne G. Sterling
Woman Wearing Head Scarf (uncredite...
Ken Terrell
Egyptian Thug (uncredited)
Boris Karloff
Kharis (archive footage / uncredite...
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With _The Mummy’s Hand_, Universal reboots the series and takes it in a new direction. When an archeologist discovers a clue to locating the tomb of the Egyptian Princess Ananka, the high priest of Karnak awakens a mummy to kill the archeologist and his team to prevent them from finding it. While the same backstory for the mummy is kept (along with the film footage), the names have been changed and he’s turning in a golem-like character tasked with doing a master’s bidding. And this change into a mindless killer makes the character a bit more frightening then before. However, the film has a tonal problem; playing more as a buddy comedy for the first half or so. Yet while it’s a bit of a mess, _The Mummy’s Hand delivers some frightening chills.
A mediocre try on the subject. There are better versions out there.
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Ultimately, this spawned three sequels that develop the tales of "Kharis" (this time Tom Tyler) as he is raised from his perpetual living death to reconcile with his "Princess Ananka". By far the best of them, this film starts off with Dick Foran ("Steve Banning) and Wallace Ford ("Babe Johnson") as two hapless archaeologists who accidentally discover and defile the tomb of "Kharis" who, together with his menacing, megalomanic High Priest "Andoheb" (George Zucco) are not best pleased. Revived by his potent elixir of Tan leaves, the mummy sets off to wreak vengeance on his desecrators - and, of course, to find his long lost gal whom he hopes will buy into his new "been in a terrible fire/hospital" look. The production is a bit basic - there is plenty of repetitive use of the same shots but the cast/writing in this are quite decent - Cecil Kellaway and Eduardo Cianelli are quite effective at keeping the story moving along between strangulations and it's got quite a good conclusion too. No relation to Karloff's 1932 version, but still quite an enjoyable development go the them that I rather enjoyed.
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