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John Banning (John Hubbard) routinely dismisses his tales of mummies as nonsense. Thirty years after the events of The Mummy’s Hand, Stephen Banning (Dick Foran) has retired to the Massachusetts town of Mapleton, where his son, Dr.
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The Mummy’s Tomb, with its miniaturized running time and been-there done-that plot, is the kind of hokum that reminds you that studios were exploiting the audience’s appetite for chills ’n’ thrills long before today’s never-ending procession of remakes, reboots, and sequels. Unfortunately, in the rush for a buck, quality was sometimes left behind.
The mummy movie rating series#
The films in this series were always intended as low-budget quickies, easy to stick at the bottom of a double bill, and even easier to forget about. Joking aside, there’s not much movie in The Mummy’s Tomb, the second entry in Universal's Kharis the Mummy cycle, but that was the idea when they made it. Extra credit: Can The Mummy’s Tomb still be considered a feature film? Why or why not? Resolve: How much actual movie remains after you subtract the recaps? Show your work. Established: 11 minutes and 27 seconds of that runtime is spent recapping, with extensive flashback footage, the previous film in Universal's Kharis series, The Mummy’s Hand(1940). Established: The Mummy’s Tomb (1942) runs for 60 minutes and 35 seconds. I know, I know, I promised that you wouldn’t have one today, but isn’t the point of a pop quiz the surprise factor? Don’t worry, it’s brief.