The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)

Director:

Michael Carreras

Writer:

Michael Carreras (screenplay)

Release Date:

31 December 1964 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

It Lives Again To Kill Again!

Plot:

When European Egyptologists Dubois, Giles and Bray discover the tomb of the Egyptian prince Ra, American...

Plot Keywords:

Curse | Tomb | Mummy | Suicide | Suicide By Drowning

Cast

Terence Morgan	...	Adam Beauchamp (Re, younger son of Rameses VIII)
Ronald Howard	...	John Bray
Fred Clark	...	Alexander King
Jeanne Roland	...	Annette Dubois
George Pastell	...	Hashmi Bey
Jack Gwillim	...	Sir Giles Dalrymple
John Paul	...	Inspector Mackenzie
Dickie Owen	...	The Mummy (Ra-Antef)
Jill Mai Meredith	...	Jenny, Beauchamp's Maid
Michael Ripper	...	Achmed
Harold Goodwin	...	Fred one of King's Workmen
Jimmy Gardner	...	Fred's Mate
Vernon Smythe	...	Jessop, Beauchamp's Butler
Marianne Stone	...	Hashmi Bey's Landlady
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Olga Dickie	...	Housekeeper (uncredited)
Nora Gordon	...	Sir Giles's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Pat Gorman	...	London Reporter (uncredited)
George Leech	...	Ship Attacker (uncredited)
Michael McStay	...	Ra-Antef (uncredited)
Eddie Powell	...	2nd Arab (uncredited)
Bernard Rebel	...	Prof. Eugene Dubois (uncredited)
Roy Stewart	...	Bearer In Museum (uncredited)
Larry Taylor	...	Swordsman (uncredited)

Directed by
Michael Carreras

Writing credits
Michael Carreras		(screenplay) (as Henry Younger)

Produced by
Michael Carreras	....	producer
William Hill	....	associate producer (as Bill Hill)

Original Music by
Carlo Martelli

Cinematography by
Otto Heller

Film Editing by
Eric Boyd-Perkins

Casting by
David Booth

Production Design by
Bernard Robinson

Makeup Department
Roy Ashton	....	makeup artist
Iris Tilley	....	hair stylist

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bert Batt	....	assistant director

Art Department
Michael Finlay	....	painter (uncredited)

Sound Department
Jim Groom	....	sound editor (as James Groom)
Claude Hitchcock	....	sound recordist

Stunts
Peter Diamond	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Bob Thompson	....	camera operator
Steve Birtles	....	gaffer (uncredited)
George Higgins	....	still photographer (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Betty Adamson	....	wardrober
John Briggs	....	wardrober

Editorial Department
James Needs	....	supervising editor

Music Department
Philip Martell	....	music supervisor
Philip Martell	....	composer: additional music (uncredited)

Other crew
Eileen Head	....	continuity
Andrew Low	....	technical advisor

Production Companies

• Hammer Film Productions
• Swallow Productions Ltd.

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures Corporation (1964) (UK) (theatrical)
• Columbia Pictures (1964) (USA) (theatrical)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Video Ltd. (1986) (UK) (VHS)
• RCA/Columbia Pictures Video (1985) (Japan) (VHS)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic (2006) (Finland) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2008) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• American International Video Search Inc.  video

Also Known As:

Runtime:

78 min | USA:81 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Finland:(Banned) (1964) | Norway:15 | UK:15 (video rating) (1986) | UK:X (original rating) | USA:Unrated | Iceland:16 | Finland:K-16 (1988)

Filming Locations:

Associated British Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Company:

Hammer Film Productions

Trivia:

Double-billed with Hammer's "The Gorgon."

Movie Connections:

Featured in 100 Years of Horror: Mummies (1996) (V)

Soundtrack:

Scheherezade

Pedestrian Hammer picture

Hammer made its reputation ,not to mention its money , with Gothic horror but in 1964 this was the only such movie on its slate .That year they turned their attention elsewhere --to the psychological chiller with Fanatic and Hysteria ; to the adventure yarn with The Brigand of Khandahar and She ;to the war picture with The Secret of Blood Island .This may be why the movie looks so tired and underfunded -almost as if they wanted to be seen as a studio that could turn its hand to many genres and were a little shame faced about doing horror pictures This a routine and unoriginal revamp of the mummy movie sub genre with all clichés present and correct .There is one deft twist-the mummy's brother turns out to be an immortal ,alive and living in London .For the rest it is the over familiar tale of archaelogists who invade a tomb becoming prey for the rampaging ,vengeful mummy who sets out to kill the " desecrators "and who turns out to have a soft spot for the comely female of the party . Fred Clark is good as the American impresario who seeks to exploit the discovery of the tomb for commercial gain and there is sound support from Ronald Howard ,George Pastell and John Paul but Terence Morgan is dull and the heroine ,Jeanne Roland is so badly dubbed as to be incomprehensible at times .There was no exterior shooting in the picture and it shows with the Egyptian desert represented by a painted backcloth Add a mummy which lacks the poetry and pathos of Karloff and Lee in previous pictures and this is second rate fare ,well below the usual standards of the studio