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Information
- Year
- 1940
- Runtime
- 67 min.
- Director
- Christy Cabanne
- Genres
- Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
- Rating *
- 6.2
- Votes *
- 2,653
- Checks
- 594
- Favs
- 8
- Dislikes
- 14
- Favs/checks
- 1.3% (1:74)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Siskoid
Universal's second Mummy movie, The Mummy's Hand, is a much simple, more matinée affair, than the original. Indeed, at 66 minutes, it could have used more second act (or even third act) complications. We spend a lot of time introducing the characters, including some of the least convincing "archaeologists" ever put to screen - the movie really belongs to the magician and his daughter, with some fun tricks and y'know, actual naturalistic acting - but the pay-off to it all is rather summary. In the original Mummy, Kharis was soon out of his bandages and thanks to Karloff, more a suave evil wizard than a monster. They've decided to fix that, so the mummy here stays a mummy, while still retaining the same basic back story. That's fine. There are supposed to be monster movies. But there's not much meat to it when all is said and done, and while The Mummy's Hand passes the time, it's easily forgotten. 5 years 6 months ago -
