
A high priest travels to America with a living mummy to kill those who had desecrated the tomb of an Egyptian princess thirty years earlier.... (Full plot summary below)
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A high priest travels to America with a living mummy to kill those who had desecrated the tomb of an Egyptian princess thirty years earlier.
Leave your thoughts about The Mummy's Tomb.
| Movie ChambersPaul ChambersA rather dull affair with many scenes directly lifted from earlier Mummy films. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomA B-programmer sequel and how come no one ever thinks to just outrun that slow-moving, one-armed stalker! |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonThe first Universal mummy movie that's not really worth it. |
| User ReviewMartin AIn fairness apart from the overlong flashbacks that link this film to the 1st, it has a really good story. The mummy never died in the original film and is summoned up to kill those who violated the tomb! Not a bad story really. Very enjoyable. |
| User ReviewRyan VMore of a true horror film than the previous film and eliminates the stupid characters from said previous film, but still obviously cheap. |
| User ReviewJ Brigham HThe traditional sort of cheesy horror that comes to mind when people think of old mummy movies; more so than the original THE MUMMY that starred Boris Karloff ten years before. Not a good movie, but an old-fashioned sort of fun, and while notably racist by our standards today, ironically not quite as racially insensitive as the Stephen Sommers movie THE MUMMY from 1999. |
| User ReviewJeremy SA whole hour movie? Not much of a story then huh? |
| User ReviewCorey BKharis is now clearly in B-movie territory (if there was any doubt before). It's hard not to notice since the film opens with 11 minutes of stock footage recounting the first film. Goes in a cool direction though and it is great to see the actors from the first film playing older versions of themselves. This is especially true for Dick Foran who rarely gets to show such diversity. Turhan Bey is a welcome new addition as the priest who follows in Zucco's footsteps. |
| User ReviewMannie LIn the third Universal Mummy outing Dick Foran and Wallace Ford reprise there roles as Banning and 'Babe' (although Hanson instead of Jenson this time - huh?), but with 30 years added to their ages. In The Mummy's Tomb the general plot scheme of The Mummy's Hand is rehashed but in this case the new High Priest (played quite well by someone who actually looks Middle Eastern) is given the task of taking Kharis - now, and thereafter, played by Lon Chaney Jr - to American to kill the Banning archeology party and all those associated with it. Thus the Mummy series moves west - this saves considerably on costs for sets as one only needs contemporary American village sets (in The Mummy's Tomb , Banning resides in New England ) and Universal recycled scenes (directly) from The Mummy's Hand such that nearly ALL Egyptian action comes from the previous movie. Not much new in this Mummy movie except locale. The acting is acceptable but not stellar. The Mummy's Tomb (and all subsequent Mummy movies) has a bit of American Western feel, both in set designs and cast actions. The latter is illustrated by the use of posse-vigilantly gangs to chase down the killer (Kharis). I found little in this movie to applaud loudly although this is not to say it is horrible. Taken for what it is - low budget 40's, WWII, Universal horror, it's a 3 star movie worth watching if you're interested in the genre. |
| User ReviewLanden CNot a bad entry into the series, but the old footage from The Mummy'a Hand was annoying as this movie is an hour long. There could've been something more to this. The comioc relief was taken out as Ford and Foran were more serious in their roles and this had more of a horror feel to it. Still not a bad watch, just not as fun. |