The Mummy's Hand
Starring: Dick Foran, Peggy Moran, Wallace Ford
Director: Christy Cabanne
Writer: Maxwell Shane
The Mummy's Hand is a 1940 American horror film directed by Christy Cabanne and produced by Ben Pivar for Universal Studios. Shot in black-and-white, the film is about the ancient Egyptian mummy of Kharis (Tom Tyler), who is kept alive with a brew of tana leaves by The High Priest (Eduardo Ciannelli) and his successor Andoheb (George Zucco).
Trivia
- Following the financial success of the revival of the Frankenstein series with Son of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man series with The Invisible Man Returns, Universal Pictures decided to revive their The Mummy series with The Mummy's Hand.
- The film's budget was set at $80,000 and began filming towards the end of May 1940.
- The authors of the book Universal Horrors described the budget as "modest" and noted that cost-cutting for the film involved using stock shots taken from The Mummy, leftover sets from James Whale's film Green Hell, and musical scores almost entirely lifted from Son of Frankenstein.
Previous Showings
2 Runs • 2 Festivals
1,000 tickets sold
All runs on record (2):
- November 14 - 16, 2012 · 412 ticketsUNIVERSAL PICTURES Part 2: 1940-1945w/ The Wolf Man
- October 26 - 27, 2023 · 588 ticketsUniversal Pictures: Horror and Morew/ Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein