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Bookmark this pageThe Mummy's Shroud (1966)
Director: John Gilling
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From Time Out Film Guide
Writer/director Gilling collaborated on some of Hammer's most imaginative pictures (The Plague of the Zombies and The Gorgon among them), but this old bag of tricks does neither him nor the studio justice. In 1920 Stanley Preston, the usual swaggering imperialist (Phillips), orders the desecration of an Egyptian tomb and unleashes ancient evil. Vengeance comes in the shape of Prem (Owen), slave to a mummified pharaoh, occupant of the tomb. First to die is Sir Basil Walden (Morell), the honourable archaelogist committed to a lunatic asylum by Preston. Catherine Lacey performs entertainingly as a soothsayer.Author: GM
Cast & crew
Director: John Gilling
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
Cast: Andre Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Elizabeth Sellars, Maggie Kimberley, Michael Ripper, Richard Warner, Catherine Lacey, Dickie Owen full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 84 mins
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