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The Mummy - The Legacy Collection (The Mummy/Mummy's Hand/Mummy's Tomb/Mummy's Ghost/Mummy's Curse) |  | Directors: Christy Cabanne, Harold Young, Karl Freund, Leslie Goodwins, Reginald Le Borg
Actors: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron, Edward Van Sloan
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 6321
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 74 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: MCAD25453D
ISBN: 1417011092
UPC: 025192545320
EAN: 9781417011094
ASIN: B0002NRRQU
Theatrical Release Date: October 23, 1942
Release Date: October 19, 2004
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Includes: mummy mummys hand mummys tomb mummys ghost and mummys curse. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 07/08/2008 Rating: Nr
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 Not as scary as I remembered November 7, 2009
buen chapin (guatemala)
This is another horror classic that I used to love in my younger years along with Dracula and Frankenstein. I remember hiding under the living room couch upon watching the mummy slithering along the sand. The creature is still creepy today, but not as scary anymore. Horror films are not made like this anymore. Blood, destruction, sex, violence and gore would be today's standards to amuse the blood-thirsty public. Even in B/W The Mummy and sequels are still excellent productions of the original monster films. They're well worth owning.
 The original is (almoist) always the best November 3, 2009
Sharon Goodwin
This B & W movie of "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff is a magnificent example of how children can be scared out of their pants and utterly delighted at the same time. I saw the movie a couple of times as a kid and several more times as an adult. Now that I am fast approaching retirement age, I find that it is just as entertaining as it was 50 years ago. The makeup on Mr. Karloff is utterly believable and, if his body position when he walks appears a little silly, so what? It is the rest of the time that the mummy sends chills down your back. The flashbacks are great and give us an understanding of his unending search for his lost love, the princess, now embodied in the movie's heroine in this century (or was it last century?).
Regardless of the few minor imperfections in this original version of "The Mummy", I found it to be just as entertaining as it was when I first saw it and even spookier in black and white that it is in the modern color version. No one will ever beat Boris Karloff in this role. He lends just the right amounts of pathos and evil, so that you find yourself wishing he could recover his lost love, just don't let her be the heroine of this particular movie because she is already taken.
Buy it, keep it, watch it periodically and, when you get to be my age, I hope you will enjoy it just as much as I have.
the mummy 1 2 3 4 5 September 2, 2009
i think the mummy s curse is the bettter one butbthaths your decisicion and the mummy is the worse
By the dread power of Seth don't miss these July 30, 2009
James Snook (New Mexico, USA)
Great fun!! I grew up watching these on late night tv and they still provide the same enjoyment. Timeless thrills and laughs. Buy them or Kharis will find you!!
 One diamond and a whole lot of rough July 22, 2009
shaxper (Lakewood, OH)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Generally speaking, the Universal Legacy Collection volumes tend to feature one immensely well done film and a mixed bag of sequels. The Mummy Legacy Collection is unique, however, both because the first film is not part of the same franchise as the four films that follow and because the quality in nearly all of these films is sub-par when compared to the usual Universal Monster standard. With the exception of one severely underrated sequel in this volume ("The Mummy's Ghost"), I consider these to be mediocre films, most feeling like B films shot on A film budgets.
The Mummy **: What should have been an amazing film is repeatedly compromised by its direction and its studio. Karl Freund, the cinematographer legend who revolutionized the look of both cinema and television, was drafted to direct this film at the very last second. Freund had never directed a film in his life, and that comes across clearly. While the film is filled with lavish sets and strong visuals (Karloff's intense close-ups with his burning eyes are nothing less than iconic), it fails to take any stance on the story, itself. The Mummy is motivated by intense love, and yet Karloff's acting and Freund's cameras do not sympathize with him. At the same time, if The Mummy is not the protagonist with whom we side, who is? The professor's obnoxious, lazy, and impulsive son? We're left with a less than terrifying film about a somewhat creepy looking lover/killer who is neither a monster nor the tragic figure with whom we sympathize. Freund applies no level of pathos to the script, nor does he compel it from Karloff. Instead, we get an indecisive, yet beautiful looking film that never really works on the emotions in the way that it should. Perhaps, had the studio not cut a sequence in which we see Karloff's character follow his lover across various time-periods, each time failing to keep her, the film would resonate differently. Instead, as it stands, The Mummy fails to capture the terror of Dracula nor the tragic pathos of Frankenstein. It falls carelessly between the two, never really delivering anything more than a memorable set of burning eyes. Oh, and I'd be amiss to leave out the fact that Karloff ceases to appear as a mummy after the first scene of the film. A disappointment all around.
The Mummy's Hand ***: Eight years later, The Mummy franchise resets itself with a far simpler, more action-oriented monster flick with a similar (yet different) mummy (who actually appears as a mummy throughout the film), a simple yet likable band of heroes, a new and more imaginative set of rules surrounding the Mummy mythos, and a plot that holds together reasonably well if you give it a healthy suspension of disbelief. Don't approach this film looking for artistry of any kind. It's a great B horror film; nothing more and nothing less.
The Mummy's Tomb **: The first sequel to The Mummy's Hand fast forwards many years and features geriatric versions of the previous film's protagonists, as well as a boring son who looks like Basil Rathbone but lacks his acting skills, and an Egyptian priest villain who is blatantly Japanese to suit the anti-Japan hysteria of post-Pearl Harbor America. If this sounds like a recipe for a lame sequel, you're not entirely wrong. The only saving grace is Lon Chaney Jr., who really defines the morbid and deformed presence of the mummy. The film's watchable, but it's hardly entertaining.
The Mummy's Ghost *****: Here's where the franchise offers up a tremendous surprise. The second sequel to The Mummy's Hand borrows the strongest ingredients from the previous films and then takes the franchise to the next level. We actually see Kharis (the Mummy) finally begin to take on true characterization. With even more limitations placed upon him than Karloff's Frankenstein monster (can't talk, and you can barely see any facial expressions beneath those bandages), we can still see Chaney's Mummy experience frustration, rage, love, and resolute sadness. Add to this John Carradine playing the best villain of the entire series (think Christopher Lee meets Willam Defoe meets Peter Lorre), likable characters, and one draw-dropping surprise ending, and you're in for one heck of a viewing experience. I honestly don't understand how this film gets overlooked by classic horror fans.
The Mummy's Curse *: The worst of the series, in my humble opinion. The characters are woefully under-developed, there's almost no plot and certainly no recognizable protagonists until the last twenty minutes of the film, there are massive plot holes, and the resolution is entirely unsatisfying. This is a film that simply didn't need to be made. Perhaps its one saving grace is that we finally get a Mummy film where the evil priest doesn't spontaneously fall in love and thereby undo himself at the end of the film.
All in all, this is one sleeper of a franchise with a few minor exceptions:
- You get the first mediocre film, featuring Karloff, some beautiful visuals, and a premise that could have been amazing if given to another director.
- The second film is fun, if cheesy.
- The fourth film is a true masterpiece and absolutely worth seeing on its own.
One great film, one almost great film, two B films, and a severely disappointing final entry. It's a mixed bag, to say the least, but It's still worth a viewing if you have the cash to burn.
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