Pharaoh's revenge
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German title | Pharaoh's revenge |
Original title | The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb |
Country of production | Great Britain |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1964 |
length | 79 minutes |
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Director | Michael Carreras |
script | Michael Carreras (as Henry Younger ) |
production | Michael Carreras |
music | Carlo Martelli |
camera | Otto Heller |
cut | Eric Boyd-Perkins |
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Revenge of the Pharaoh (original title: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb ) is a horror film by the British production company Hammer from 1964 . It is the second film in a series of four "mummy films" that Hammer produced. The others are Revenge of the Pharaohs , The Curse of the Mummy, and The Tomb of the Bloody Mummy .
action
In 1900 the Egyptologists John Bray, Sir Giles Dalrymple and Professor Eugene Dubois, accompanied by Professor Dubois' daughter Annette, are on excavations in Egypt. You will discover the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Ra-Antef , which the American Alexander King brought to London to display there.
In London, the mummy disappears from its sarcophagus and some of the expedition members are cruelly killed. It seems as if the mummy is seeking revenge on those who disturbed its eternal rest.
production
The film was shot at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood on a budget of £ 103,000 . Jeanne Roland, who made her screen debut in the film, was dubbed because of her heavy accent. Franz Reizenstein's musical leitmotif from The Revenge of the Pharaohs can be heard during the scenes that play as a retrospective in Egypt . The renewed use of the piece of music resulted from financial considerations and not because they wanted a common leitmotif for the films.
Reviews
- Cinema : "Routine horror with involuntary comedy"
- Lexicon of international film : "Primitive horror film with involuntarily comical scenes."
- Evangelical film observer : “Not badly done, but with an unclear intellectual background and spreading horror. Without approval. "
Web links
- The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site on hammerfilms.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Denis Meikle, Christopher T. Koetting: A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer , Scarecrow Press, 2009, p. 145
- ↑ Critique on cinema.de
- ↑ Pharaoh's Revenge. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 185/1965