An ancient mummy is revived to destroy the invaders of the 3,000 year-old tomb of an Egyptian princess.

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A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician (Cecil Kellaway) and his beautiful daughter (Peggy Moran), they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest (George Zucco) and the living mummy Kharis (Tom Tyler) who are the guardians of Ananka^Ã’s tomb. Written by Jeremy Lunt <[email protected]>

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20 September 1940 (USA)  »

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La mano de la momia  »

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The large impressive tomb set was originally built for Universal's "Green Hell" and appeared again in other Universal features. See more »

Goofs

The film explains in some detail how the mummy Kharis is kept alive by administering a brew of Tana leaves each month on the full moon. The leaves are kept in a sacred box, containing at most a few hundred leaves. This simply would not be enough to have kept Kharis alive since antiquity, given that at least one leaf each month would be required for at least three thousand years. See more »

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Steve Banning: Those jackals are giving me goose pimples.
Babe Jenson: Aw they're giving me goose pimples on top of my goose pimples.
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Followed by The Mummy's Ghost (1944) See more »

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The Mummy's Hand (1940) ***
16 February 2005 | by (U.S.A.) – See all my reviews

Not a sequel to Boris Karloff's THE MUMMY, but the start of an entirely different series of non-related films.

A group of likable treasure seekers search for the tomb of an ancient princess, but they encounter her still-living mummified prince instead, bent on destroying anyone who would dare defile the ancient Egyptian gods. This was the first and best of four Universal films featuring the mummy Kharis. At this stage of the game the formula was still fresh and not at all clichéd or monotonous, so that already places HAND at a distinct advantage over its other sequels and spin-off's.

Tom Tyler makes one very creepy mummy, all arthritic and twisted, with weird eyes that are optically blackened out for full effect in chilling closeups. George Zucco is deliciously cunning as the mad High Priest who keeps the mummy alive and killing via the sacred brew of nine ancient tana leaves. Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, Cecil Kellaway and Peggy Moran are all very pleasant as the awkward explorers who stumble upon Kharis' cursed tomb.

Comic relief is well used but never becomes intrusive, as the action always remains dead serious whenever the mummy takes center stage.


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