| The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb | |
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| Directed by | Michael Carreras |
| Written by | Michael Carreras |
| Starring | Terence Morgan Ronald Howard Fred Clark Jeanne Roland Michael Ripper George Pastell |
| Music by | Carlo Martelli Franz Reizenstein (uncredited) |
| Cinematography | Otto Heller |
| Distributed by | Columbia |
| Release date(s) | 1964 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is a 1964 British horror film by Hammer Film Productions.
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A mummy discovered by three Egyptologists is brought back to London by a showman. The mummy begins to murder various members of the expedition until it is revealed that a sinister character (portrayed by Terence Morgan) carries a secret to the mummy's past and future.
The film stars Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, and Fred Clark, and was directed by Michael Carreras. Unlike most Hammer films of that period, it was filmed at Elstree Studios, rather than the company's permanent home at Bray. With the exception of (for example) character actors Michael Ripper and George Pastell, director Carreras and designer Bernard Robinson, most of the cast and crew were not Hammer veterans.
The score was by Carlo Martelli, but contained uncredited excerpts from Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, Ippolitov-Ivanov's Procession of the Sardar, and Franz Reizenstein's music written for Hammer's original "mummy" film.
Because union rules in Britain decreed that one person could not be credited as the writer, producer and director of a film, writer/producer/director Michael Careras adopted the name "Henry Younger" for his screenplay -- a deliberate play on the name "John Elder," which was Hammer producer Anthony Hinds' writing pseudonym.
A novelization of the film was written by John Burke as part of his 1966 book The Hammer Horror Film Omnibus.
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