The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
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| Directed by | Michael Carreras |
| Produced by | Michael Carreras |
| Written by | Henry Younger (pen name of Michael Carreras) |
| Starring |
Terence Morgan Ronald Howard Fred Clark Jeanne Roland |
| Music by |
Carlo Martelli Franz Reizenstein (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Otto Heller, B.S.C. |
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| Distributed by | Columbia |
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18 October 1964 |
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Running time
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78 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is a British horror film produced, written and directed by Michael Carreras, starring Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark and introducing Jeanne Roland. Made by Hammer Film Productions, it was released in the UK on 18 October 1964 and, in the US, by Columbia Pictures on 31 December 1964.
"Egypt in the year 1900". A mummy is discovered by three Egyptologists: Englishmen John Bray (Ronald Howard) and Sir Giles Dalrymple (Jack Gwillim) as well as French Professor Eugene Dubois (unbilled Bernard Rebel, who died three weeks before the film's UK premiere). Assisting in the expedition is Professor Dubois' daughter, and Bray's fiancée, Annette (Jeanne Roland), herself an Egyptology expert. All the artifacts are brought back to London by the project's backer, American showman Alexander King (Fred Clark), who plans to recoup his investment by staging luridly sensational public exhibits of the Egyptian treasures. Soon after arrival, however, the mummy revives and starts to kill various members of the expedition, while it becomes evident that sinister Adam Beauchamp (Beecham) (Terence Morgan), a wealthy arts patron whom members of the expedition meet on the ship returning to England, harbors a crucial revelation of the mummy's past and future.
Unlike most Hammer films of that period, it was filmed at Elstree Studios, rather than the company's permanent home at Bray. With the exception of character actors Michael Ripper and George Pastell, director Carreras and designer Bernard Robinson, most of the cast and crew were not Hammer veterans. Female lead Jeanne Roland, in her screen debut, receives "and introducing" credit, but her voice is dubbed with one that emphasises a prominently thick French accent.
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