
He tells him that when he read from the Scroll of Life, he unintentionally brought back to life Kharis, the mummified high priest of Karnak. Three years later, back in England, Stephen Banning comes out of his catatonia at the Engerfield Nursing Home for the Mentally Disordered, and sends for his son. Outside, members of the archaeological team hear his screams and rush into the tomb to find Stephen in a catatonic state. After Joseph leaves to tell John the good news, Stephen finds the Scroll of Life and reads from it. Stephen and Joseph ignore him, and discover within the sarcophagus of Ananka. Before they enter, an Egyptian named Mehemet Bey warns them not to go in, lest they face the fatal curse against desecrators. John has a broken leg and cannot accompany his father and uncle when they open the tomb. In Egypt in 1895, archaeologists John Banning, his father Stephen and his uncle Joseph Whemple are searching for the tomb of Princess Ananka, the high priestess of the god Karnak. The character name Joseph Whemple, the use of a sacred scroll, and a few minor plot elements are the only connections with the 1932 version. Though the title suggests Universal Pictures' 1932 film of the same name, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two 1940s Universal films, The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb, with the climax borrowed directly from The Mummy's Ghost. in 1959 on a double bill with either the Vincent Price film The Bat or the Universal film Curse of the Undead. It was written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions. The Mummy is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.
