Line #15 Film/TheMummysHand


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3	''The Mummy's Hand'' is a 1940 Franchise/UniversalHorror film, directed by Christy Cabanne.
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5	Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and his sidekick, Babe Jenson (Wallace Ford), are stuck in Egypt following largely unsuccessful efforts at archaeology. They get lucky when they discover a clue to the location of the Princess Ananka's tomb, and convince Solvani (Cecil Kellaway), a traveling magician, to fund an expedition there, on which Banning and Jenson are joined by Solvani and his daughter Marta (Peggy Moran). They all become targets of Andoheb (George Zucco), the high priest of a secret order charged with guarding the tomb and its {{Mummy}} Kharis (Tom Tyler).
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7	''The Mummy's Hand'' is a reboot of ''Film/{{The Mummy\|1932}}'' from 1932, exchanging the mummy Imhotep for the mummy Kharis but keeping the backstory all the same. It is also a TropeCodifier for the mummy-themed horror films.
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9	It was followed by three sequel films, all starring Creator/LonChaneyJr as Kharis: ''The Mummy's Tomb'' (1942), ''The Mummy's Ghost'' (1944), and ''The Mummy's Curse'' (1944). It would later be remade as the Film/HammerHorror film ''Film/{{The Mummy\|1959}}'' (1959), with Creator/ChristopherLee as Kharis and Creator/PeterCushing as Banning. Its pulpier, more TwoFistedTales tone was also a big influence on [[Film/TheMummy1999 the 1999 remake]] of the 1932 film.
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12	!!Tropes in this film:
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14	* BarBrawl: Starts out when some men paid by "the beggar" attack our heroes.
15	* BewareTheSillyOnes: Babe's the comic relief of the film, but he's the one who ends up [[spoiler:killing Andoheb]].
16	* BlackEyesOfEvil: Kharis's eyes in the closeups appear as two black holes.
17	* BuriedAlive: Kharis was buried alive for the sacrilegious act of trying to resurrect his love, Princess Ananka.
18	* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Employed in the bar brawl (where else?).
19	%%* DamselInDistress: Marta.
20	* DisappearingBox: Solvani has one. When he drops into it after being confronted by Marta about financing the expedition, he disappears from it and ends up in a locked one.
21	* FantasticFlora: The tana plant, the leaves of which can be brewed into a liquid usable to reanimate Kharis. Supposedly, the plant the leaves come from has since gone extinct, but [[OffscreenVillainDarkMatter throughout the series the priests never seem to run out]].
22	* GagDub: Creator/TheFiresignTheatre did one live over the radio for one of the sequels, ''The Mummy's Tomb'', by watching it on TV in the studio. Viewers at home were encouraged to turn on their televisions and watch along.
23	* GenreSavvy: Kharis can remember what happens in each film, [[spoiler:and kills his master in the third one when he starts espousing the same plot as the last two]].
24	* ImmuneToBullets: Bullets do absolutely nothing to Kharis.
25	* LeaveNoWitnesses: The slaves that buried Kharis in the past were killed after they were finished.
26	* PickACard: Jenson uses this trick to gain free drinks at bars. It backfires when he tries it on Solvani.
27	* SilentSnarker: Kharis, and it gets ''much'' more pronounced in the sequels.
28	* StageMagician: The Great Solvani, Marta's father.
29	* WhatHaveWeEar: One of the magic tricks that Solvani does.
30	* WolvesAlwaysHowlAtTheMoon: Jackals, in this case.
31	%%* ZombieGait

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