History Film / TheMummy1959

* AdaptationalWimp: In the original Universal film, the Mummy was the BigBad and a gifted sorcerer who was able to mask his true nature as an undead in order to pose as a modern Egyptian scholar. Here, he's TheDragon to Mehemet and is little more than DumbMuscle.

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!!This film has the examples of:

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: [[CriticalResearchFailure Karnak was not an Egyptian deity. It's the name of a temple complex near Thebes.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: Let's be honest, Mehemet Bey is exactly right when he accuses
John of looting and desecrating graves and taking what he finds to the British Museum.

* AdaptationAmalgamation: Although intended as a remake of ''Film/TheMummy1932'', the plot and most of its principle characters are taken from ''Film/TheMummysHand'' and ''Film/TheMummysTomb''. The 1932 movie's famous and early scene of the sight of the mummy walking across the tomb floor driving a member of the archaeological team insane is re-created here, but not seen in any of the 1940s movies. The finale of ''Film/TheMummysGhost'' is also interpolated into this movie, albeit with a somewhat different outcome. Despite all this, there is no credit to any pre-existing source material at all.

In 1895 Egypt, a group of archeologists led by John Banning (Cushing) open the tomb of Princess Ananka (Yvonne Furneaux), despite the warnings of a death curse which will fall upon desecrators. Three years later in England, a vengeful Egyptian man arrives and unleashes the living mummy Kharis (Lee) on the men. But the mummy's revenge is complicated when he discovers that Banning's wife Isobel is the spitting image of his beloved, long-dead Ananka.

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The first Film/HammerHorror film to feature a {{Mummy}}, released in 1959 and reuniting the director (Terence Fisher) and stars (Creator/PeterCushing and Creator/ChristopherLee) of the studio's previous hits ''Film/TheCurseOfFrankenstein'' and ''Film/HorrorOfDracula''.

* VillainHasAPoint: Let's be honest, Mehemet Bey is exactly right when he accuses John of looting and desecrating graves and taking what he finds to the British Museum.

* YouKilledMyFather: John resents Mehmet andKharis due to their previous victims being his father and uncle.

* AdaptationDistillation: The film condenses the overarching plot of Universal's ''Film/TheMummysHand'', ''The Mummy's Tomb'', and ''The Mummy's Ghost'' into one movie while removing some major plot holes from the originals.

The first Film/HammerHorror film to feature a {{Mummy}}, released in 1959. Directed by Terence Fisher.

In 1895 Egypt, a group of archeologists led by John Banning (Creator/PeterCushing) open the tomb of Princess Ananka (Yvonne Furneaux), despite the warnings of a death curse which will fall upon desecrators. Three years later in England, a vengeful Egyptian man arrives and unleashes the living mummy Kharis (Creator/ChristopherLee) on the men. But the mummy's revenge is complicated when he discovers that Banning's wife Isobel is the spitting image of his beloved, long-dead Ananka.

* ReasonableAuthortiyFigure: Inspector Mulrooney is understandably skeptical about the idea of a curse but keeps an open mind during his investigation, talks to all of the right people, is willing to acknowledge when his findings make a curse seem likely and plots guards to protect John and Isobel.

* ActionGirl: Isobel. She proves this not once, but TWICE even though she never gets physical when saving John from Kharis despite the former specifically telling her to lock herself in her room for her own safety prior to the first attack, and to stay outside with Inspector Mulrooney the second.

* ActionGirl: Isobel. She proves this not once, but TWICE when saving John from Kharis despite the former specifically telling her to lock herself in her room for her own safety prior to the first attack, and to stay outside with Inspector Mulrooney the second.

* Action Girl: Isobel. She proves this not once, but TWICE when saving John from Kharis despite the former specifically telling her to lock herself in her room for her own safety prior to the first attack, and to stay outside with Inspector Mulrooney the second.

* Plucky Girl: Isobel.

* Plucky Girl: Isobel. She proves this not once, but TWICE when saving John from Kharis despite the former specifically telling her to lock herself in her room for her own safety prior to the first attack, and to stay outside with Inspector Mulrooney the second.

* VillainHasAPoint: Let's be honest, Mehemet Bey is exactly write when he accuses John of looting and desecrating graves and taking what he finds to the British Museum.

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