THE MUMMY (1959). Continuing with remaking the classic monsters after CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HORROR OF DRACULA, Hammer does a bang up job remaking the old musty film, focusing on Kharis. and the same basic story. Good acting by all and good production values.
As usual, Peter Cushing steals every scene He is in ; what a treasure! Using every prop He could snatch up, extreme physicality (such as sliding over and off a table despite his character having a bad leg) and the best selling of being throttled I've ever seen.
Also, kudos to Christopher Lee as the bandaged one. Lon Chaney Jr's rendition was very slow and it really shouldn't have been too much trouble to get away. Lee's Kharis is very tall, very fast and almost TERMINATOR-esque as "...it can't be reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity and it absolutely WILL NOT STOP -ever-until You are dead!" ***1/2