Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (Video 1999)Director:David J. SkalWriter:David J. Skal |
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Amina Mansouri
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John Balderston Jr. | ... |
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John L. Balderston | ... |
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Leon Belasco | ... |
Ali
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Paul E. Burns | ... |
Banning Caretaker
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Yousef Bey
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Kharis
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Virginia Christine | ... |
Princess Ananka
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Eduardo Ciannelli | ... |
High Priest
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Freddie
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Exceedingly well-done documentary on the making of The Mummy with lots of great stories about some of the stars and makers of that film. Zita Johann is examined in great detail(greater than Karloff I believe), and we get lots of second-hand stories about her spiritualism, her fights with Karl Freund the director, and her wit. Film historian Gregory Man details a couple of the stories with great clarity, wit, and even does an impression of Freund! There are other stories about Karloff and the arduous make-up he endured for Jack Pierce. There is a whole exposition done on where the concept of the story came from and then the documentary moves to a point by point and scene by scene comparison of The Mummy and Dracula. Even more might have been examined by giving actors like David Manners and Edward Van Sloan(who seems never to get any love in these things but was crucial in those early Universal greats!)some talk. The documentary then moves to the sequels and gives them some time, but it really just goes over them in a somewhat cursory manner. Producer/director David Skaal once again has given the Mummy as well as all the other Universal monsters in the stable their due.