The Mummy

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Mummy, 1959.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Mummy, 1959.

This pre-dates Johnny Carson's bit by maybe ten years, after English couriers fumbled the Egyptian tomb into the bog, Mehemet (George Pastell), who's followed the heroes from Egypt, summons the title character (Christopher Lee) to undertake revenge, in Hammer Films' The Mummy, 1959.

Exposition opening the Hammer Films’ re-boot of the Universal original, Egyptologist Banning (Felix Aylmer) cautioned by associate and brother-in-law Whemple (Raymond Huntley), Peter Cushing his injured son and leader, and there’s also a role for Christopher Lee, in The Mummy, 1959.

Months after his fellow-Egyptologist father went bonkers after entering the tomb of an ancient princess, Banning (Peter Cushing) and his uncle and colleague (Raymond Huntley) seal the entrance, the local spook (George Pastell) already plotting revenge, in Hammer Films’ The Mummy. 1959.

Egyptologist Banning (Peter Cushing) and relatively new wife Isobel (Yvonne Furneaux) with doctor (Willoughby Gray) who explains that father (Felix Aylmer) has finally snapped out of it, in Hammer Films' The Mummy, 1959.

A bandage-wrapped Christopher Lee stalks his victims in Hammer Film's version of The Mummy (1959).