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Release Date:
20 September 1940 (USA)
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Tagline:
The tomb of a thousand terrors!
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Plot:
A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence...
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Obviously nothing great, but kind of fun by it's own merit.
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Runtime:
67 min
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Trivia:
Due to a clerical oversight, "The Mummy's Hand" was never legally made available for television viewings, and remained largely unseen until Universal Studios VHS release in 1997.
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Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Marta says, "I'll fix him with my trick revolver," her lips do not move.
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Quotes:
Babe Jenson:
Hey Steve, can a dame go crazy from being sawed in half too many times?
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After the initial success of "The Mummy" in 1932, Universal made four sequels to it between 1940 and 1944. All five of these films are available on DVD in Universal's Mummy Legacy Collection set. The original film with Boris Karloff is pretty good. "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) isn't bad either, but it is the only sequel film with watching.
Obviously, the film is not great by any stretch of the imagination, but it is kind of fun for old movie enthusiasts and classic movie buffs in particular. The atmosphere of the film is more easygoing and high-spirited than the excessively melodramatic later sequels. This is due in part to the fact that it progresses more like an adventure movie than a true horror film. A major factor that makes this film superior to the later ones is that it actually takes place in Egypt, giving the larger-than-life storyline necessary for such a film an appropriately foreign setting. In the later films, the mummy character wreaks havoc in the southern United States, which just makes those films weird and hokey. The movie doesn't take itself too seriously; some of the main characters include a stereotypical, quick-talking Brooklyn sidekick and a slightly eccentric stage magician.
Obviously, this movie is not for everyone. If you don't like old movies or movies without a truly good plot, avoid this one. But as I said before, if you're into classic monsters and you're in the mood for a good old, fun, corny monster flick, this one is worth a try. Don't expect it to be more that it is, because it's not trying to be more than it is in the first place. Watch it, enjoy it for what it is, and don't bother with the later sequels.