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The Mummy
1959 Christopher Lee
Excavating in Egypt at the turn of the century, three Englishmen search for the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka (Yvonne Furneaux), high priestess in the court of the god Karnak.
The eldest explorer is Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer), and his companions are his son, John (Peter Cushing), and Joseph Whemple (Raymond Huntley).
Ignoring the warnings of a mysterious Egyptian, Mehemet (George Pastell), their digging finally reveals the treasure gallery and the sarcophagus of the beautiful princess.
A sudden shock causes the elder Banning to go mad, and the expedition returns to England. Three years later, John and his lovely young wife, Isobel (Yvonne Furneaux) o are baffled by the old man's premonition of impending death. When he is fiendishly murdered, followed by the weird killing of Whemple, John is attacked by a monstrous, terrifying, and seemingly indestructible giant.
The brutal killer is Kharis (Christopher Lee), who had been a high priest in Egypt four centuries before and buried alive as guardian of the embalmed princess. Obeying occult powers of
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the ancient gods, he returns to life in all his mummified hideousness to destroy those who have desecrated the sacred Egyptian tomb.
Commanded by Mehemet, The Mummy goes on his murderous rampage, and only the startling resemblance of Isobel to his long-dead princess keeps him from crushing John to death. The speechless, tormented monster kills his Egyptian master, and carries the frightened girl away with him.
Banning follows with police and townsmen, and their deadly assault of high-powered bullets finally disintegrate the grisly hulk, and The Mummy forever disappears under the slimy swamp from which he had returned to life for his Pharoah's revenge of deathly destruction.
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Hammer Film Productions, Ltd.
presents
"THE MUMMY"
In Technicolor
starring
PETER CUSHING
CHRISTOPHER LEE
YVONNE FURNEAUX
Associate Producer
ANTHONY NELSON-KEYS
A Universal-International Release
John Banning ....................... PETER CUSHING
Kharis ....................... CHRISTOPHER LEE
Isobel ....................... LYVONNE FURNEAUX
Ananka Muirooney ....................... EDDIE BYRNE
Stephen Banning ....................... FELIX AYLMER
Joseph Whemple ....................... RAYMOND LIUNTLEY
Mehemet ....................... GEORGE PASTELL
Coroner ....................... JOHN STUART
Pat ....................... HAROLD GOODWIN
Mike ....................... DENNIS SHAW
Directed by ....................... TERENCE FISHER
Screenplay by ..................... JIMMY SANGSTER
Produced by ................. MICHAEL CARRERAS
Production Manager ....................... Don Weeks
Production Designer ....................... Bernard Robinson
Director of Photography ....................... Jack Asher
Musical Director ....................... John Hollingsworth
Music Composed by ....................... Frank Refzenstein
Camera Operator ....................... Len Harris
First Assistant Director ....................... John Peterall
Second Assistant Director ....................... Tom Walls
Asststant Art Director ....................... Don Mingaye
Technical Adviser ....................... Andrew Low
Makeup ....................... Roy Ashton
Supervising Editor ....................... James Needs
Editor ....................... Alfred Cox
Wardrobe ....................... Molly Arbuthnot
Continuity ....................... Marjorie Lavelly
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