Saturday, 6 May 2017

179 The Mummy ( 1959 )


Another  Hammer  here  with  a  fairly  faithful  remake  of  The  Mummy. It's  OK  if  a  touch  on  the  long  side.

Peter  Cushing  is  John  Banning  an  archaeologist  whose  father  discovers  the  lost  tomb  of  a  Princess  Arkana. He becomes  mad  almost  immediately  and  a  sinister   Egyptian  follows  the  party  back  to  England  with  a  rather  large  pal  ( Christopher  Lee )  formerly  a  high  priest  ( who , oddly,  understands  English ) , to  wreak  revenge  on  the  desecrators.

Yvonne  Furneaux ( as  Isobel  Banning  / Arkana )

Sex:  Looks  nice  in  a  nightdress

Death : From  plague  as  Arkana, Isobel  survives



Yvonne  was  an  Anglo-French  actress  (  originally  Elisabeth  Scarcherd ) who  appeared  in  films  on  both  sides  of  the  Channel. She  retired  in  the  early  seventies  ( bar  one  film  in  the  eighties ) and  now  lives  in  Switzerland. She  is  88.

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