Not as good a the original
Added 2/4/2009
The Mummy's Hand is one hour and thirteen minutes long and released on December 22, 1932. This film is neither a follow up nor a sequel to The Mummy. First the mummy Imhotep is not the mummy Kharis. Second, Princess Ankh-es-en-amon is now the Princess Ananka. Finally instead of reviving the Princess Ankh-es-en-amon with the Scroll of Thoth, it is tana leaves to keep Kharis heart beating so he can guard his beloved Princess Ananka. Also the mummy Kharis stays a mummy and does not take human form. Gone is Boris Karloff as the mummy, in is Tom Tyler as the mummy. Just like Karloff, this would be Tom Tyler only time as the mummy; mainly due to his arthritis. The movie starts out okay, buts starts to loose it half way in the story. Even the ending on how they defeat mummy in battle. This movie only gets a C out of me.
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THE FIRST SEQUEL TO THE MUMMY............NOT!
Added 2/14/2008
In the 40's Universal was busy makin' monster movies! They made some of their best(The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man) and they made some of their worst(The Mummy and Frankenstein sequels). Don't get me wrong, I love all of these movies, but lets be honest, some of these films are down right silly.
'The Mummy's Hand' is a decent film as long as you look at it the right way, it's a fun picture. This "Horror" film plays up the comedy with a "wanna be" Abbott & Costello duo as the leads of this picture. This is a good thing as it makes the film a lot of fun. The Mummy and sets are good and there is some atmosphere in this first of four film series.
Please don't consider these films sequels to the original classic starring Karloff, I know they use footage from the first film, but the names have changed and the story has been altered. I rate this film 3 1/2 Stars for it's fun factor. This was the only film in this series to not use Lon Chaney Jr. as the Mummy. That honor goes to Tom Tyler. This is available on DVD on the Mummy Legacy collection and on a double bill with The Mummy's Tomb.
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THE FIRST MUMMY SEQUEL
Added 11/5/2004
The Mummy's Hand is the first sequel to the Mummy although it would not appear until eight years after the original. It opens by re-using footage from the original with just a few scenes re-shot showing Kharis stealing tana leaves replacing the scene where Karloff as Imhotep steals the scroll of Thoth.
We are introduced to Horror vet George Zucco as Andoheb, high Priest of Karnak and guardian of the secret tomb of princess Ananka. We are shown how he can control the mummy Kharis by giving him a fluid made of tana leaves.
Cut to Dick Foran as "Steve Banning", a down on his luck archeologist and his partner Babe Jensen. Banning makes a discovery of the location of Ananka's tomb and puts together an expedition to uncover the tomb, funded by American Magician The Great Solvini and his daugher Marta.
Soon, Andoheb sets Kharis on their trail to kill them after they discover Ananka's tomb.
The Mummy's Hand, and the later three sequels would all be "B" movies, re-using much stock footage. There isn't really much of a plot here other than to give Zucco a change to let the Mummy (played by western star Tim Tyler) run wild...well, shamble wild. But hey..the second sycle of Horror was running wild at Universal so they were cranking these out fast.
Foran is the usual handsome hero and Wallace Ford as Babe jenson provides the usual sidekick comic relief so common in these movies.
Certainly no classic and director Christy Cabanne was NO Karl Freund...but it's still a fun movie and a quick watch at just over 60 minutes.
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Perfectly laid out introduction to the mummy films
Added 1/2/2004
I think that "The Mummy's Hand" has all it needs to be a perfect introduction into the tales of Kharis. Steve Banning and Babe Jenson are shopping in native artifact stores when they discover a clue that later on leads them to the tomb of Princess Ananka. As they pursue the clue by going to the Cairo Museum to see about preparing and financing an expedition, they meet Professor Andoheb, the mummy's commander in a crude disguise as a professor. As they tell him the fact that the artifact they have, with its unique symbols, may lead to the discovery of the Princess, he starts his response by marveling at the work of the artifact. Unfourtunately, he deduces that it is an imitation made by a clever manufacturer. After Banning says he will be having to seek financial assistance elsewhere, the professor drops the artifact while trying to return it to Banning, and claims it was an act of random clumsiness.Their artifact gone, they salvage the remains and eventually find another source of financing, only this time, they are in for a big surprise, not with just the mummy, but the financer's daughter. The surprises, however, are yours to find out in this must-have movie which started perhaps the most popular mummy miniseries of all.
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The birth of the stereotypical mindless mummy
Added 9/21/2003
By 1940 and the reawakening of Universal's classic mummy monster after eight sequel-less years, the original Borlis Karloff-style mummy that could pass for a human as soon as he got his bandages off was long gone, and the mindless, staggering hunk of old bandages was the new norm. Comedy had also found its way into Universal's classic monster movies, perhaps as a counterweight to whatever horror the sight of a filthy shambling mummy supposedly inspired. Still, there are certain elements of 1932's The Mummy to be found here; in fact, a significant amount of footage from that earlier movie is used during some of the early scenes of The Mummy's Hand. We watch the burial of the princess Ananka and witness the horrible fate bestowed upon her lover (Kharis as opposed to Imhotep) for attempting to steal the one thing that could bring the princess back to life. In this case, it is not the Scroll of Thoth that has the power to resurrect the dead, it is the fluid of Tana leaves. Kharis has his tongue cut out and is buried alive, but - and this is a pretty big but - he never really dies. For some unexplained reason, the high priests of Karnak, whose temple stands opposite the mountain tombs of Kharis and Ananka, keep the mummy alive with steady doses of Tana fluid. Thus the mummy waits for the time when someone dares to disturb the tomb of his beloved, in which case the high priest gives him the fluid of nine Tana leaves, enough to give him the strength to dispatch those who defile Ananka's grave but not enough to give him complete strength and true immortality. As the movie opens, down-on-his-luck archeologist Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and his comic sidekick "Babe" (Wallace Ford) think they have discovered the location of the fabled tomb of Ananka. Despite the subdued hostility of the respected Professor Andoheb (George Zucco), they are determined to investigate the site for themselves. Low on funds, they manage to find an unlikely patron in "The Great Salvoni," a magician whose daughter supplies the required love interest for the story. Work at the excavation site produces unexpected results, including the deaths of a few of the men, and our heroes eventually come to realize that Kharis the mummy is responsible for the attacks. The pretty young lady naturally finds herself in great danger before all is said and done, and the rest is fairly obvious. The Mummy's Hand offers some new twists of its own to mummy lore, but these twists don't serve its purposes all that well. The story is just a little too far-fetched, I feel, and the ultimate conclusion far from difficult to figure out early on. Still, it's an entertaining film to watch, and the comic relief worked well without ever crossing the line into silliness. I'm not sure why the mummy's hand is so important, though, and it seems to me that the easiest way to avoid the legendary hand is to avoid the mummy altogether. I might add that while I am a George Zucco fan, I really don't think he was a great fit for the part of the high priest of Karnak, but the cast as a whole worked together quite well. While Kharis the mindless mummy (portrayed here by Tom Tyler) lacked the character and menace of the original Karloff mummy, it is this B movie grade mummy who would haunt the dreams of many an impressionable young monster fan back in the day as he shambled his way through this and three additional Kharis the mummy films.
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Not as good a the original
Added 2/4/2009
The Mummy's Hand is one hour and thirteen minutes long and released on December 22, 1932. This film is neither a follow up nor a sequel to The Mummy. First the mummy Imhotep is not the mummy Kharis. Second, Princess Ankh-es-en-amon is now the Princess Ananka. Finally instead of reviving the Princess Ankh-es-en-amon with the Scroll of Thoth, it is tana leaves to keep Kharis heart beating so he can guard his beloved Princess Ananka. Also the mummy Kharis stays a mummy and does not take human form. Gone is Boris Karloff as the mummy, in is Tom Tyler as the mummy. Just like Karloff, this would be Tom Tyler only time as the mummy; mainly due to his arthritis. The movie starts out okay, buts starts to loose it half way in the story. Even the ending on how they defeat mummy in battle. This movie only gets a C out of me.
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THE FIRST SEQUEL TO THE MUMMY............NOT!
Added 2/14/2008
In the 40's Universal was busy makin' monster movies! They made some of their best(The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man) and they made some of their worst(The Mummy and Frankenstein sequels). Don't get me wrong, I love all of these movies, but lets be honest, some of these films are down right silly.
'The Mummy's Hand' is a decent film as long as you look at it the right way, it's a fun picture. This "Horror" film plays up the comedy with a "wanna be" Abbott & Costello duo as the leads of this picture. This is a good thing as it makes the film a lot of fun. The Mummy and sets are good and there is some atmosphere in this first of four film series.
Please don't consider these films sequels to the original classic starring Karloff, I know they use footage from the first film, but the names have changed and the story has been altered. I rate this film 3 1/2 Stars for it's fun factor. This was the only film in this series to not use Lon Chaney Jr. as the Mummy. That honor goes to Tom Tyler. This is available on DVD on the Mummy Legacy collection and on a double bill with The Mummy's Tomb.
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THE FIRST MUMMY SEQUEL
Added 11/5/2004
The Mummy's Hand is the first sequel to the Mummy although it would not appear until eight years after the original. It opens by re-using footage from the original with just a few scenes re-shot showing Kharis stealing tana leaves replacing the scene where Karloff as Imhotep steals the scroll of Thoth.
We are introduced to Horror vet George Zucco as Andoheb, high Priest of Karnak and guardian of the secret tomb of princess Ananka. We are shown how he can control the mummy Kharis by giving him a fluid made of tana leaves.
Cut to Dick Foran as "Steve Banning", a down on his luck archeologist and his partner Babe Jensen. Banning makes a discovery of the location of Ananka's tomb and puts together an expedition to uncover the tomb, funded by American Magician The Great Solvini and his daugher Marta.
Soon, Andoheb sets Kharis on their trail to kill them after they discover Ananka's tomb.
The Mummy's Hand, and the later three sequels would all be "B" movies, re-using much stock footage. There isn't really much of a plot here other than to give Zucco a change to let the Mummy (played by western star Tim Tyler) run wild...well, shamble wild. But hey..the second sycle of Horror was running wild at Universal so they were cranking these out fast.
Foran is the usual handsome hero and Wallace Ford as Babe jenson provides the usual sidekick comic relief so common in these movies.
Certainly no classic and director Christy Cabanne was NO Karl Freund...but it's still a fun movie and a quick watch at just over 60 minutes.
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