The Mummy: The Legacy Collection [2 Discs]The Mummy: The Legacy Collection [2 Discs]

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  • Rating:
     NR
  • Language:
      Eng
  • Studio:
      Universal Studios
  • UPC:
      025192545320
  • Year of Release:
      2004
  • Item Number:
      MCA025453
  • Release Date:
      07/08/2008
  • Genre:
     

    Creature Film –

    Horror

  • Format:
     

    DVD

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

    Another edition to the first-class Legacy Series of releases Universal created to showcase their classic movie monsters, The Mummy offers five films. The Mummy, The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, and The Mummy's Curse are each presented in the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1. English soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. Spanish and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a commentary track from film historian Paul M. Jensen, a documentary about the cinematic history of the mummy, and original trailers for all five of the films presented on the discs. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:
  • Region: 1
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Screen: Black and White
  • Audio: DDM2.0
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
  • Features:
    • cc
    • "Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed" -- An original documentary by film historian David J. Skal
    • Film historian Paul M. Jensen provides insightful commentary to the film
    • The Mummy archives
    • Original theatrical trailers for all films
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
REVIEWS:
  • Cowboy star Tom Tyler certainly makes a strapping Mummy, perhaps more so than Lon Chaney, Jr. who replaced him in the following three films and who was chosen more for his exploitative name than for any thespian talents. Not that acting had much to do with playing a dead guy rolled up in bandages, but like Boris Karloff before him, Tyler manages to portray emotion with his eyes only. Universal spared every expense in making this "sequel" to the 1935 Karloff classic The Mummy, using leftover sets from Green Hell (1939) and quite a bit of footage from the original. None of that really matters, however; The Mummy's Hand is still fine pulp fiction acted by a stock company that had done this sort of thing many times before. If the film lacks the truly scary moments of the original, it compensates by repeating the now familiar story slightly tongue-in-cheek. Leading players Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco (despite being shot three times at close range) and, via stock footage, Peggy Moran all returned for a second helping in The Mummy's Tomb (1942) which, to his detriment, transferred Kharis from his Egyptian haunts to modern-day America. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
  • Opening with quite a bit of explanatory stock footage from The Mummy's Hand, The Mummy's Tomb is neither the best nor the worst in Universal's second wave of horror films. Lon Chaney Jr., who played the title role in The Wolf Man the previous year, reportedly hated the character and no wonder: When all is said and done there is only so much that a monster swathed in bandages can do and Boris Karloff and Tom Tyler (of Hand) had already done it. Entirely obscured by makeup and gauze, Chaney was mainly cast for his name; most of the action scenes were actually filmed with his double, Eddie Parker. The lucrative franchise refused to go away, however, and Chaney went on to suffer through the pedestrian The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse (both 1944). Like other series films of the 1930s and 1940s, the Mummy pictures became a testing ground for new talent and both John Hubbard and Elyse Knox gamely play their cardboard characters as if they believed in them. Neither became stars, though, the latter being rather better known as Mark Harmon's mother. Still and all, The Mummy's Tomb is fairly entertaining fare and it is fun to see the angry villagers from the original Frankenstein back in action via stock footage. One question remains: Why did Wallace Ford's character change from Babe Jenson to Babe Hanson somewhere between The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb? ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
  • Produced by Universal and scripted by John Balderston, The Mummy is essentially a remake of that team's already then-classic Dracula (1931). Once again, the undead, in this film a 3,000-year-old high priest brought to life by the desecration of his grave, may only possess a woman by turning her into an echo of himself. Karl Freund, one of the veterans of German expressionism, had photographed the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula but had obviously been heavily stifled by Tod Browning's stilted direction. Here, with the able assistance of director of cinematography Charles Stumar, Freund is allowed a second chance and he rarely lets his camera remain immobile for long. Never before, and rarely since, has the German silent school been used to better effect in a Hollywood production; not only do the many tracking shots add the kind of visual excitement completely lacking in Dracula, Freund also accomplishes a sense of ethereal romance spanning time and distance. If Freund is the true star of The Mummy, Boris Karloff remains a close second. With his angular face and physique and that slight lisp, less was often more, and as Imhotep, Karloff never overplays but creates instead a believably brittle 3,000-year-old, whose power lies more in thought than deed. Accolades should also go to Zita Johann, the Broadway actress' only truly memorable screen performance. Reportedly, screenwriter John Balderston had recommended Katharine Hepburn, but wiser heads prevailed and Johann went on to create one of the most memorable ingenues in horror film history. According to film lore, makeup artist Jack Pierce spent hours upon hours wrapping Karloff in his conventional mummy getup but Freund wisely used only close-ups of the actor's face and hands, leaving it up to the viewer's imagination as to what exactly made poor Bramwell Fletcher go mad in perhaps The Mummy's best-remembered scene. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
  • The most tightly wrapped of Universal's classic monsters dons the bandages once again in this fifth and final installment in the studio's Mummy series (not including Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy). Following closely on the heels of The Mummy's Ghost, which was also released in 1944, this film was a vast improvement featuring virtually nonstop action from start to finish with a minimum of padding to explain the previous pictures. This time, Kharis the mummy (Lon Chaney Jr.) is unearthed from a Louisana swamp -- along with his beloved Princess Ananka (Virginia Christine) -- and proceeds to go on his usual bloody rampage. Christine is excellent in the role and looks stunning for a 3,000-year-old woman who just crawled out of the sand. The same can't be said for Chaney's Kharis whose slow, limping stride is as nasty as his murderous disposition. In fact, of Chaney's three films as the creature, Curse marks his best and scariest performance particularly in the slam-bang finale. Technical achievements, including the sets and special effects, are very good and help to create a necessarily spooky atmosphere. ~ Patrick Legare, Rovi

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