The Mummy's Hand

The Mummy's Hand

20/9/1940 1h 7m 5.7/10

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.

Director

Christy Cabanne

Top Billed Cast

Eduardo Ciannelli

Eduardo Ciannelli

The High Priest

Cecil Kellaway

Cecil Kellaway

The Great Solvani

Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford

Babe Jenson

Dick Foran

Dick Foran

Steve Banning

George Zucco

George Zucco

Professor Andoheb

Peggy Moran

Peggy Moran

Marta Solvani

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

6/23/2022

6/10

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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