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The Mummy's Hand

The Mummy's Hand

  • Status: Released
  • 20-09-1940
  • Runtime: 67 min
  • Score: 5.7
  • Vote count: 93

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.

Dick Foran

Steve Banning

Peggy Moran

Marta Solvani

Wallace Ford

Babe Jenson

Eduardo Ciannelli

The High Priest

George Zucco

Professor Andoheb

Cecil Kellaway

The Great Solvani

Charles Trowbridge

Dr. Petrie

Tom Tyler

The Mummy

Sig Arno

The Beggar-Henchman

Eddie Foster

Egyptian Starting Fight

Harry Stubbs

Bartender

Michael Mark

Bazaar Owner

Mara Tartar

Girl Vendor

Leon Belasco

Ali

Jerry Frank

Egyptian Thug (uncredited)

Frank Lackteen

Temple Priest (uncredited)

Murdock MacQuarrie

Temple Priest (uncredited)

Anne G. Sterling

Woman Wearing Head Scarf (uncredited)

Ken Terrell

Egyptian Thug (uncredited)

Boris Karloff

Kharis (archive footage / uncredited)

Zita Johann

Princess Ananka (archive footage / uncredited)

James Crane

King Amenophis (archive footage / uncredited)

Ack

Not a bad movie for a rainy Saturday afternoon. It's a little serious and a little bit fun. Keep an open mind and realize this isn't a million dollar production and it can be very enjoyable.

CinemaSerf

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.