The Mummy

Name: The Mummy
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Released: December 16, 1959
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Christopher Lee, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer, George Pastell, George Woodbridge

1959

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Rank Film Distributors | Release Date: December 16, 1959 | Unrated

Starring: Christopher Lee, Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer, George Pastell, George Woodbridge, Harold Goodwin, Michael Ripper, Peter Cushing, Raymond Huntley, Yvonne Furneaux

Summary: In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.

Director: Terence Fisher

Genre(s): Adventure, Horror

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 86 min

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Its qualities are almost entirely abstract and visual, with colour essential to its muted, subtle imagery. Christopher Lee looks tremendous in the title role, smashing his way through doorways and erupting from green, dream-like quagmires in really awe-inspiring fashion. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

The Mummy is one of Hammer’s classics, cleverly fusing the human pathos of the original Universal film with the creature-centric physicality of the sequels the latter inevitably yielded. Read full review

Slashfilm Scott Beggs

If you loved Universal’s Mummy but wished it had more Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, here you go. Read full review

The Guardian Philip French

Alternately corny and magical, scary and comic, naive and perverse, elegant and clumsy, The Mummy is always stylish and atmospheric, and Cushing and Lee became enduring world stars. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

This remake really can't compare with the 1932 original and Lee is given no chance to flesh out his character in the haunting manner that Boris Karloff did, but for fairly standardized movie horror, this flick isn't half bad. Read full review

Howard Thompson

For a superior version of a nearly identical horror yarn, with a little style and imagination, catch the 1932 Boris Karloff version of The Mummy now floating around on television. The new one just lumbers. Read full review

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