The Mummy's Tomb

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Staring: Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard, Elyse Knox, George Zucco
Director: Christy Cabanne, Harold Young
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal Studios
EAN: 9780783260334
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0783260334
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-07-24
Running Time: 131
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1942-10-23

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Genre: Horror
Rating: NR
Release Date: 24-JUL-2007
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

See the original, 2007-11-21
These two films are really rather poor. Even though they are mercifully short (Hand is 67mins and Tomb is 60mins) they have few redeeming qualities. The acting is at times rather wooden and in the case of the Mummys hand two of the heros are vaguely reminisent of Abbott and Costello. Whether this was intended I very much doubt.

The Mummy itself is a pretty clever makeup creation (no CGI remember) and there are one or two moments in both films where the closeups of the mummys face must have been pretty scary back in the 1940's. However any tension created is soon lost because the films are largely confined to one or two sets and the plots are pretty contrived and disbelief settles in quite quickly when you realise that the Mummy can only walk at 1.5 miles an hour. Naturally the characters in the film don't seem to grasp this important fact!

See the Boris Karloff original, which is one of the great Universal horror films.

Mummy's Hand Review, 2007-04-22
Wallace Ford ruins this movie. He plays a comedic role as Babe and is featured so heavily, he turns Mummy's Hand into a bad comedy rather than a scary movie. One of the worse entries in the Universal horror frachise.

good old classic double feature, 2005-08-12
Two of the old classics on one disc. its the way the color movies should be.

Horror or Humor?, 2009-12-14
It's hard to dislike The Mummy's Hand, if anything for nostalgic reasons; however, the comic precence of Wallace Ford and Cecil Kellaway make the film appear uneven. The mummy is certainly creepy, and George Zucco is the ultimate mad man. But I would have liked it as a straight horror film myself. It strikes me as strange that the other major monsters didn't play their sequels for laughs. Dracula was followed by Dracula's Daughter, Frankenstein had The Bride of Frankenstein, and after The Wolf Man came Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. Why Universal decided make The Mummy's Hand a comedy-horror movie I'm not sure, but on that level, it suceeds.

Ironically, the sequel, The Mummy's Tomb, isn't a humor/horror film. The mummy (this time portrayed by Lon Chaney) is still frigtening, but this time Wallace Ford isn't a laugh-getter, nor is Dick Foran the leading man (that role goes to his son). George Zucco is only in the film for the first few minutes, and Cecil Kellaway's magician character -- as well as his daughter -- are gone. The bottom line as to which film is better than the other is a matter of which genre appeals to the viewer. Both are good -- just different.

ENTERTAINING, BUT FLAWED! THE MUMMY SEQUELS!, 2007-08-15
I don't consider either of these films sequels of the original Mummy. They do use footage in flashback, but they really have little to do with the classic original. There were four Mummy films made in the 40's and even though they are not classics they are tough to dislike. The two films on this set are better then the two on the last set. The DVD transfer is good but, the Legacy Collection is a better deal because you get all 5 Mummy movies in one package. The extras are very good on the Legacy set.

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