Boris Karloff was fairly frightening in the original Universal The Mummy (1932) and Lon Chaney Jr. managed to put the fear of God in at least the young at heart in the 1940s. Even Tom Tyler had the capacity to send a shiver or two down the spines of newcomers to Universal's back-lot Egypt when he took a stab at playing Kharis back in 1940. Universal, if nothing else, did melodrama very well. Not so Bel Air Prod., who brought a cast to sweltering Death Valley and basically let it go at that. Not that producers Howard W. Koch and Aubrey Schenck could do much with Richard H. Landau's pedestrian script which came with all the clichés but none of the fun. That and the fact that Universal owned the rights to the bandage-wrapped mummy -- Pharaoh's Curse's undead is basically a senior citizen in a ratty bathrobe -- made this version of the story a dud in 1957 and a dud today.
Pharaoh's Curse (1957)
Directed by Lee Sholem
Genres - Mystery |
Sub-Genres - Creature Film, Crime Thriller, Melodrama, Supernatural Horror |
Release Date - Feb 1, 1957 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 66 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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