Pharaoh's revenge

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Movie
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
Rod
Director Michael Carreras
script Michael Carreras
(as Henry Younger )
production Michael Carreras
music Carlo Martelli
camera Otto Heller
cut Eric Boyd-Perkins
occupation

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Denis Meikle, Christopher T. Koetting: A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer , Scarecrow Press, 2009, p. 145
  2. Critique on cinema.de
  3. Pharaoh's Revenge. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 185/1965