Wednesday 12 July 2017

223 Curse of the Mummy's Tomb ( 1964 )

Hammer  came  out  with  a  second   murderous  mummy  film  although  this  one  has  no  connection  with  The  Mummy  apart  from  the  re-use  of  Michael  Ripper  and  George  Pastell  in  different  parts. It's  a  very  dull  movie  which  has  little  new  to  offer  and  badly  misses  the  star  presence  of  a  Lee  or  Cushing.

A  group  of  Egyptologists  including  a female  Annette  Dubois  excavate  a  mummy's  tomb  amid  the  usual  dire  warnings  of  a  curse  from  the  locals. Their  backer  Alexander  King ( Fred  Clark ) wants  to   exhibit  him  a  la  King  Kong.  The  mummy  is  one  of  two  feuding  brothers  and  there's  a  flashback  to  his  death. In  the  meantime, Annette  is  wooed  by  Adam  Beauhamp  ( Terence  Morgan ) , a  mysterious  playboy   who  seems  to  know  rather  too  much  for  an  amateur.

Jeanne  Roland ( as  Annette  Dubois )

Sex : Great  cleavage

Death : Survives


Jeanne  was   really  Myrna  Rollins,  an  Anglo-Burmese  actress  born  in   Rangoon  and  her  lines  had  to  be  over-dubbed  to  maintain  the  fiction  she  was  French. She  had  a  small  part  in  You  Only  Live  Twice  in  1967  but  disappeared  from  view  not  long  afterwards. She  is  now  80.


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