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The Mummy's Hand is a 1940 American horror film directed by Christy Cabanne and produced by Ben Pivar for Universal Studios.Shot in black-and-white, the film is about the ancient Egyptian mummy of Kharis (), who is kept alive with a brew of tana leaves by The High Priest (Eduardo Ciannelli) and his successor Andoheb (George Zucco).
The film The Mummy, which was released eight years before The Mummy's Hand, tells the story of the high priest Imhotep, who is punished for attempting to resurrect a dead lover, and thousands of years later returns to the Earth as a living mummy. However, in The Mummy's Hand the mummy is a royal prince named Kharis and the details of the story ...
Steve Banning was born on June 18, 1882 in Mapleton, Massachusetts where he also grew up with his older sister Jane. He then became an archaeologist in his early 20s and went on many famous expeditions as mentioned by Professor Andoheb in The Mummy's Hand.
In 1959, the franchise was rebooted, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Though the title suggests Universal Pictures' 1932 film of the same title, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two 1940s Universal films, The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb, with the climax borrowed directly from The Mummy's Ghost ...
The Mummy: 1932 Karl Freund: The Mummy: 2017 Alex Kurtzman: Mummy's Boys: 1936 Fred Guiol: The Mummy's Curse: 1944 Leslie Goodwins: the fourth and final film in the Kharis the Mummy series The Mummy's Hand: 1940 Christy Cabanne: the first film in the Kharis the Mummy series The Mummy's Shroud: 1967 John Gilling [38] The Mummy's Ghost: 1944 ...
The Mummy's Curse made use of footage from two of Universal's previous mummy films, The Mummy (1932) and The Mummy's Hand (1940). [ 2 ] In the book It Came from Bob's Basement: Exploring the Science Fiction and Monster Movie Archive of Bob Burns , a book by horror and film collector Bob Burns , Burns has the last surviving piece of Jack Pierce ...
The Universal horror films The Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), and the latter's sequels, contain references to a curse foretelling death to those who enter the tombs. Pharaoh's Curse (1957 film) The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964 film) The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980 film)
Moran's film career began at Warner Bros. in the late 1930s. [9] She starred in a number of B movies, including The Mummy's Hand (1940), Slightly Tempted (1940), Horror Island (1941), Treat 'Em Rough (1942), and King of the Cowboys (1943), and played smaller parts in A pictures, such as the "first cigarette girl" in Ninotchka (1939).