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Originally Posted by FryeDwight
THE MUMMY (1959). Continuing with remaking the classic monsters after CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HORROR OF DRACULA, Hammer does a bang up job remaking the old musty film, focusing on Kharis. and the same basic story. Good acting by all and good production values.
As usual, Peter Cushing steals every scene He is in ; what a treasure! Using every prop He could snatch up, extreme physicality (such as sliding over and off a table despite his character having a bad leg) and the best selling of being throttled I've ever seen. 
Also, kudos to Christopher Lee as the bandaged one. Lon Chaney Jr's rendition was very slow and it really shouldn't have been too much trouble to get away. Lee's Kharis is very tall, very fast and almost TERMINATOR-esque as "...it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity and it absolutely WILL NOT STOP -ever-until You are dead!" ***1/2 |
I just saw Mummy 1959 recently. The sets were a feast for the eyes! Loved the modern conversation Mehemet Bey has with John (Peter Cushing); Bey lashing the British for taking Egyptian relics back to England. And yes, good stunts by Cushing, and nice squib (bullet hit) effects!
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It was kinda funny when Peter Cushing's wife, Isobel, just sort of pops up out of nowhere in the last quarter of the film, just in time to look like the image of Princess Ananka. It's funny too when Inspector Mulrooney leaves Isobel alone in the dark trees when an assassin is expected to descend of the house from somewhere.
Was surprising how abrupt the ending was. And it was a rather odd too... was there really a need to shoot up Kharis?
Wouldn't an archaeologist want to interview him for a few decades? Apparently he already knew English. Just needed to teach him to write.