The Mummy – 1959

A Hammer film production released by Universal Pictures
Copyright MCMLIX by Hammer Film Productions – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate

RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios England
Eastmancolour processed by Technicolor 88 mins

Storyline

Egypt, 1895: An expedition led by archaeologist Stephen Banning unearths the last resting place of the ancient princess Ananka, but the old man is driven mad by something else hidden within the tomb. Three years later, a mysterious Egyptian, who has sworn vengeance on the members of the expedition for their act of desecration, arrives in rural England, bringing with him a large crate of “relics”. The crate is lost when it falls from a cart into a bog and sinks, but that night the Egyptian returns to the scene and, unrolling a papyrus, begins to intone the sacred words of the Scroll of Life…..

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Associate Producer	Anthony Nelson-Keys	47	13 Nov 1911		19 Mar 1985	73	41		41
Ast. Director	John Peverall	28	1 Jan 1931		3 Oct 2009	78	21		21
Camera Operator	Len Harris	43	19 May 1916		21 Feb 1995	78	52	1	53
Continuity	Marjorie Lavelly	38	12 Apr 1921		22 Sep 2006	85	8		8
Director	Terence Fisher	55	23 Feb 1904		18 Jun 1980	76	31		31
Director of Photog.	Jack Asher BSc	43	29 Mar 1916		Apr 1991	75	14		14
Editor	Alfred Cox	34	1925		2005	80	21	4	25
Hair Stylist	Henry Montsash	54	17 Sep 1905		29 Sep 1974	69	16		16
Make-up Artist	Roy Ashton	50	16 Apr 1909		10 Jan 1995	85	36	4	40
Music Composer	Frank Reizenstein	48	7 Jun 1911		15 Oct 1968	57	1		1
Musical Supervisor	John Hollingsworth	43	20 Mar 1916		29 Dec 1963	47	36	2	38
Producer	Michael Carreras	31	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	82	3	85
Production Designer	Bernard Robinson	47	28 Jul 1912		2 Mar 1970	57	46	3	49
Production Manager	Don Weeks	54	15 Nov 1904		Mar 1988	83	30		30
Screenplay	Jimmy Sangster	31	2 Dec 1927		19 Aug 2011	83	65	2	67
Sound Editor	Roy Hyde	39	15 Feb 1920		28 Jun 1985	65	30	1	31
Sound Recordist	Jock May	54	1 Jan 1905		8 Jan 1991	86	30	1	31
Special Effects	Bill Warrington	49	1 Jan 1910		11 Sep 1981	71	2	2	4
Supervising Editor	James Needs	39	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	110	1	111
Technical Advisor	Andrew Low						4	1	5
Wardrobe Mistress	Molly Arbuthnot	50	19 Dec 1908		31 Oct 2001	92	48	4	52
Uncredited
Ast. Art Director	Don Mingaye	30	1 Jan 1929		8 Nov 2017	88	26	14	40
Ast. Editor	Chris Barnes	21	1 Jan 1938		5 Jun 2009	71	21	12	33
Boom Operator	Jim Perry							8	8
Cashier	Ken Gordon						1	7	8
Casting	Dorothy Holloway	61	7 Mar 1898		1972	73	1	5	6
Chief Electrician	Jack Curtis						3	23	26
Clapper Loader	Alan McDonald	21	1938	01.01.1938		85		14	14
Construction Manager	Michael Lyons							10	10
Egyptologist	Andrew Low						4	1	5
Focus Puller	Harry Oakes	38	16 Jan 1921		11 Dec 2012	91		53	53
Mask Maker	Margaret Robinson	39	31 Jan 1920		3 Oct 2016	96		4	4
Master Carpenter	Charles Davis							8	8
Master Painter	Lawrence Wren							11	11
Master Plasterer	Arthur Banks						18	29	47
Property Master	Tom Money	42	1917		1974	56	2	20	22
Props Buyer	Eric Hillier	39	1920		1975	55		16	16
Publicist	Colin Reid							6	6
Second Ast. Director	Tom Walls	47	31 May 1912		28 Nov 1992	80	1	9	10
Sound Camera Operator	Alan Thorne							7	7
Sound Department	Claude Hitchcock	40	8 Nov 1918		4 Oct 2010	91	14	4	18
Sound Maintenance	Charles Bouvet	52	27 Oct 1906		1978	71		6	6
Still Photog.	Tom Edwards				1999			26	26
Studio Manager	Arthur Kelly							3	3
Third Ast. Director	Hugh Harlow	20	17 Jun 1939	17.06.1939		83	3	28	31
Wardrobe Ast.	Rosemary Burrows						36	5	41

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info					91	Credited	Uncredited	Total
Attendant	Stanley Meadows	28	14 Jul 1931	14.07.1931		91	1		1
Bill	Frank Sieman	51	7 Aug 1908		9 Mar 1992	83	1	1	2
Coroner	John Stuart	61	18 Jul 1898		17 Oct 1979	81	7	1	8
Dr Reilly	Willoughby Gray	42	5 Nov 1916		13 Feb 1993	76	1		1
Head Porter	Frank Singuineau	46	8 Apr 1913		11 Sep 1992	79	1		1
Inspector Mulrooney	Eddie Byrne	48	31 Jan 1911		21 Aug 1981	70	2		2
Irish Customer	Gerald Lawson	62	30 Apr 1897		6 Dec 1973	76	2	1	3
Isobel.Ananka	Yvonne Furneaux	33	11 May 1926	11.05.1926		96	1		1
John Banning	Peter Cushing	46	26 May 1913		11 Aug 1994	81	24	1	25
Joseph Whemple	Raymond Huntley	55	23 Apr 1904		15 Jun 1990	86	3		3
Mehemet Bey	George Pastell	36	13 Mar 1923		4 Apr 1976	53	5	1	6
Mike	Denis Shaw	38	7 Apr 1921		28 Feb 1971	49	4	3	7
Pat	Harold Goodwin	41	22 Oct 1917		3 Jun 2004	86	5	2	7
Poacher	Michael Ripper	46	27 Jan 1913		28 Jun 2000	87	34	2	36
Police Constable	George Woodbridge	52	16 Feb 1907		31 Mar 1973	66	9	1	10
Police Sergeant	David Browning	37	10 Aug 1922	10.08.1922		100	1		1
Stephen Banning	Felix Aylmer	70	21 Feb 1889		2 Sep 1979	90	2		2
The Mummy/Kharis	Christopher Lee	37	27 May 1922		7 Jun 2015	93	22		22
Uncredited
Flashback Slave	Roy Stewart	34	15 May 1925		27 Oct 2008	83	1	4	5
Man at Inquest	Arthur Dibbs							1	1
Man at Inquest	Ernest Blyth							11	11
Man at Inquest	George Spence							4	4
Priest	James Clarke							1	1
Priest	John Harrison							2	2
Stunts	Eddie Powell	32	9 Mar 1927		11 Aug 2000	73	2	11	13
With	Frederick Rawlings	44	19 Aug 1915		1 Jan 2003	87	1	3	4

Production


FILMING BEGAN	23 February 1959
UK RELEASE	25 September 1959
STUDIO	Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England
	Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England	Princess Ananka's Funeral

Footnotes

This is the only Hammer film in which their three most prolific actors, Michael Ripper, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, appear together. Their only other appearance together was in Tigon’s “The Creeping Flesh” 1973.

“The Mummy” had originally been made in 1932 from a screenplay by John L. Balderston, with Boris Karloff in the title role. Following the success of “Dracula” (1958), Universal were more than happy to hand over the script of their old classic to Hammer for similar treatment.

The scene in which Peter Cushing plunges a spear right through the body of the mummy was not in Jimmy Sangster’s original screenplay. It was added at Cushing’s suggestion after he had seen the artwork for the film’s poster, which showed a beam of light shining through a hole in the creature’s stomach.

Actor Eddie Byrne was no stranger to horror films. In 1958, he was in Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman’s “Jack the Ripper” and later made two movies for Tom Blakely’s Planet Films – “Devils of Darkness” (1964) and “Island of Terror” (1966, with Peter Cushing and directed by Terence Fisher).

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection