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The Mummy's Tomb

  • 1942
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  • 1h 1m
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Lon Chaney Jr., Turhan Bey, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, and Elyse Knox in The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.
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The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka... Read allThe ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.

  • Director
    • Harold Young
  • Writers
    • Griffin Jay
    • Henry Sucher
    • Neil P. Varnick
  • Stars
    • Lon Chaney Jr.
    • Dick Foran
    • John Hubbard
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    • Director
      • Harold Young
    • Writers
      • Griffin Jay
      • Henry Sucher
      • Neil P. Varnick
    • Stars
      • Lon Chaney Jr.
      • Dick Foran
      • John Hubbard
    • 73User reviews
    • 54Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Lon Chaney Jr.
    Lon Chaney Jr.
    • The Mummy - Kharis
    • (as Lon Chaney)
    Dick Foran
    Dick Foran
    • Prof. Stephen A. Banning
    John Hubbard
    John Hubbard
    • John Banning
    Elyse Knox
    Elyse Knox
    • Isobel Evans
    George Zucco
    George Zucco
    • Andoheb
    Wallace Ford
    Wallace Ford
    • Babe Hanson
    Turhan Bey
    Turhan Bey
    • Mehemet Bey
    Virginia Brissac
    Virginia Brissac
    • Mrs. Evans
    Cliff Clark
    • Sheriff
    Mary Gordon
    Mary Gordon
    • Jane
    Paul E. Burns
    Paul E. Burns
    • Jim
    Frank Reicher
    Frank Reicher
    • Prof. Norman
    Emmett Vogan
    Emmett Vogan
    • Coroner
    Sig Arno
    Sig Arno
    • The Beggar
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Brandon Beach
    • Reporter
    • (uncredited)
    Leon Belasco
    Leon Belasco
    • Ali
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Walter Byron
    Walter Byron
    • Searcher
    • (uncredited)
    Noble 'Kid' Chissell
    Noble 'Kid' Chissell
    • Townsman
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Harold Young
    • Writers
      • Griffin Jay
      • Henry Sucher
      • Neil P. Varnick
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    6dangie

    Channey Jr.'s first appearance as the gauzed menace!

    Fun, typical Universal"B".. In what must've amounted to a cost-cutting measure, over 10 min. of the film's 60 min. running time, is made up of scenes from 1940's The Mummy's Hand"!! This flick would mark Chaney's first of 3 appearances as Kharis. Look for Glenn Strange[Frankenstein's Monster from '44-'48]in an unbilled "bit" as a farmer calming a horse, during the Mummy's first attack sequence.
    5Platypuschow

    The Mummy's Tomb: Passable sequel

    The Mummy's Tomb is the 2nd part of the original "The Mummy" franchise following on from The Mummy's Hand (1940).

    It's set 30 years after the events of the first film and the mummy has returned under new guidance, this time to kill off all surviving members of the Banning family who were responsible for foiling the evil plans in the first movie.

    This time there is no comedy, the entire tone of the movie is considerably darker!

    For this reason it doesn't have the same charm as the first movie but it makes up for this with better cinematography and continues the story perfectly.

    It does suffer all the tropes of movies of this era (And there are many) but it could have been considerably worse. For fans of classic horror cinema this is a watchable continuation of the franchise.

    The Good:

    Looks better than the first part

    Follows on very well

    The Bad:

    Remaking scenes from the earlier film is a tad silly

    Very cliched

    Things I Learnt From This Movie:

    Mummys are excellent climbers

    If in doubt, cry witch!

    Playing dead works against Mummys
    4bkoganbing

    You Can't Keep A Good Mummy Down

    As Dick Foran and Wallace Ford put the torch to Kharis the Mummy in The Mummy's Hand there's no way that Universal Pictures was thinking about a sequel. Otherwise they would have made sure to identify the fact that the action was taking place in 1912 and had everyone wear costumes of the period.

    So it looks a little ridiculous to have Dick Foran and Wallace Ford now elderly beginning The Mummy's Tomb made up as elderly gents with Foran reminiscing about those days on that dig in Egypt where he bested the cult of Kharis and Princess Ananka and brought back the Princess Ananka's mummy with the treasures of her tomb. The first 10 to 12 minutes of this film is a flashback synopsis of the previous film.

    But it turns out that Wallace Ford didn't really kill George Zucco with those bullets fired at point blank range. George has been waiting for 30 years, but he and the cult want some payback. Kharis survived too and Zucco before he dies turns him over to a new handler in Turhan Bey. They've even got a cover story with Bey getting a job as cemetery worker, the better to bring Kharis over from Egypt.

    The Mummy's Tomb takes the unusual step of having Kharis kill the heroes of the previous film. But Foran left a grown son in John Hubbard who has taken up the fight against the undead. And Bey deviates from the mission because he's decided he wants Hubbard's intended bride Elysse Knox all for himself and he sends Kharis out to arrange it in his inimitable fashion.

    I think you see where this one is going, but Universal did this one in their usual Gothic horror style. But The Mummy's Tomb is not as good as its predecessor and none of those films involving Kharis are anything approaching light years as good as Boris Karloff in the original The Mummy. Universal did not do as good as it did with Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman.

    Mummy films are the runt of Universal's litter.
    6JoeKarlosi

    The Mummy's Tomb (1942) **1/2

    This 61 minute sequel begins with roughly about 10 minutes of stock footage from the previous film (THE MUMMY'S HAND), but it should be taken into account that these first two Universal installments were released a couple of years apart back in their day, and it was during a time in our history when we didn't have the luxury of television, much less "home video". Today we can watch these films over and over, and back to back; but in the early '40s it wouldn't have been so easy to recall where the story of Kharis the mummy left off two whole years ago, and that's in the context that this repetitive footage should be considered.

    After being refreshed of the last films' Egyptian exploits of novice archaeologists Steve Banning and Babe Jenson (now mistakenly referred to as Babe "Hanson", an error which is NOT as easily excusable!) we move ahead 30 years where the mummy of Kharis (newly played by Lon Chaney) is stuck in America with current high priest Mehemet Bey (Turhan Bey). Why it's taken so long is anyone's guess, but Mehemet now has a vengeance mission to unleash the mummy on Steve and Babe (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford, reprising their parts in senior citizen's makeup) for daring to defile Kharis' tomb three decades earlier.

    This is strictly a "B" level programmer without many trimmings, but it's still a fairly entertaining one . Lon Chaney looks menacing in his ravaged mummy outfit which properly shows some of the effects of the fire which consumed him once upon a time. Chaney absolutely hated playing the restrictive part of Kharis, yet he wound up grumbling through it for two more sequels following this one. Harold Young's pedestrian direction is nothing much to get excited about, but we do get some chilling sequences of Kharis creeping around modern-day Mapleton, Massachusetts on dark and windy evenings, which are a plus. Turhan Bey is perfectly cast as the mummy's foreign protector, and lovely Elyse Knox is easy on the eyes as the pretty love interest to John Hubbard, who doesn't leave much impression as Steve Banning's son. One can nitpick on the inconsistency of these mummy sequels forever; for example, even though TOMB occurs thirty years after HAND and should therefore be set in 1970, everyone still dresses and acts like it's 1942. But what the hell -- taken for what it is, THE MUMMY'S TOMB is a fast and fulfilling hour of mindless fun.

    **1/2 out of ****
    5Hitchcoc

    Hand Me Another Roll of Gauze

    I loved the very first Universal Mummy movie with Boris Karloff in all his spookiness. It has a connection to mysteries of Egypt and Books of the Dead. Most of the other films from this genre have a real sameness to them. There is the man who travels with Kharis, the poor creature, buried alive and wrapped in cloth. His agenda seems to be to protect Kharis but he fails sometimes. This one hearkens back to the Mummy's Hand where the characters have now aged and gone on to a new generation. There is lots of death in this one, where people who the mummy realized were responsible for his struggles are done in. Soon the mummy has found a new love, and so he sets out to make things happen. Jealousy plays a role in this offering and sets the scene for another movie.

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    • Trivia
      In a 1995 interview with TV host Skip E. Lowe, actor Turhan Bey (Mehemet Bey) cited this film as his favorite particularly because he loved playing his character.
    • Goofs
      Kharis never uses his right arm until he carries Isabelle with no problem.
    • Quotes

      Mehemet Bey: The moon rides high in the sky again, Kharis; there's death in the night air. Your work begins.

    • Connections
      Edited into Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (1999)

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    • Release date
      • October 23, 1942 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • La tumba de la momia
    • Filming locations
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA(Studio)
    • Production company
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 1 minute
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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