Mummy's Shroud, The

The Mummy's Shroud
Credits
Title:	The Mummy's Shroud
Director:	John Gilling
Writers:	John Gilling; Anthony Hinds
Producers:	Anthony Nelson Keys
Composer:	Don Banks
Cinematography:	Arthur Grant
Editors:	Chris Barnes; James Needs
Production
Distributed by:	Hammer Film Productions Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Released:	March 15th, 1967 (US) June 18th, 1967 (UK)
Running time:	90 min.
Country:	UK
Language:	English
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The Mummy's Shroud is a British feature film of the horror genre with an emphasis on mummy fiction. It was written and directed by John Gilling and co-written by Anthony Hinds. It was produced by Hammer Film Productions and released theatrically in the United States on March 15th, 1967. It was released in the United Kingdom on June 18th, 1967.

Cast

Actor	Role
André Morell	Sir Basil Walden
John Phillips	Stanley Preston
David Buck	Paul Preston
Elizabeth Sellars	Barbara Preston
Maggie Kimberley	Claire de Sangre
Michael Ripper	Longbarrow
Tim Barrett	Harry Newton
Richard Warner	Inspector Barrani
Roger Delgado	Hasmid Ali
Catherine Lacey	Haiti Ali
Dickie Owen	Prem
Bruno Barnabe	Pharaoh Men-Ta
Toni Gilpin	Pharaoh's wife
Toolsie Persaud	Kah-to-Bey
Eddie Powell	The Mummy
Andreas Malandrinos	The curator

Appearances

Protagonists Basil Walden Claire de Sangre Paul Preston Antagonists Almen-Ta Haiti Ali Hasmid Ali Prem Stanley Preston Other characters Barbara Preston Barrani Harry Newton Kah-to-Bey Longbarrow Men-Ta Men-Ta's wife Locations Egypt Mezzara Alley of the House of Mukhtar Landing stage Mezzara Hotel Restoration House Rock of Death Tomb of Kah-to-Bey

Items Crystal ball Sacred Shroud Sarcophagus Spear Sword Races & Creatures Humans Mummies Animals Birds Snakes Powers Clairvoyance Precognition Resurrection Superhuman durability Superhuman strength Miscellaneous 1920 A-Hole Ancient Egypt Curator Curse Defenestration Falling from a great height Fortune teller Hotel Incantations Pharaoh Slave Stabbings Strangulation

Notes & Trivia

• The tagline to this film is "Beware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet!"

• Interior scenes were filmed at Bray Studios in Berkshire, England. Location shoots and desert sequences were filmed at Wapseys Wood, Gerrard's Cross in Buckinghamshire.

• This film premiered on the same day as Frankenstein Created Woman.

• The Mummy's Shroud was released to DVD on July 25th, 2000 by Anchor Bay Entertainment. It was also packaged with The Plague of the Zombies as a double-feature by Anchor Bay/Starz Entertainment on July 27th, 2004.

• The film was released on Blu-ray by Shout! Factory on January 14th, 2020, which included a commentary track and documentary feature.

• A behind-the-scenes documentary titled The Beat Goes On: The Making of The Mummy's Shroud was produced by Flashpoint Media and premiered in the United Kingdom on October 22nd, 2012. It was directed by Marcus Hearn and included commentary by John J. Johnston, the vice-chair of The Egypt Exploration Society.

• The Mummy's Shroud was featured on Dr. Gangrene's Recommended Movie of the Week, which premiered on April 16th, 2011.

• This is the only work in the horror genre for actor Roger Delgado. Roger Delgado died in an automobile accident near Nevshir in Turkey on June 18th, 1973. He was 55-years-old. He died on the six-year anniversary of the UK release of The Mummy's Shroud.

• Actors André Morell and Catherine Lacey also appeared together in The Shadow of the Cat in 1961, which was also directed by John Gilling. That film was the first Hammer movie shot at Bray Studios. Ironically, The Mummy's Shroud proved to be the final film shot at Bray Studios.

• Actress Catherine Lacey, who plays Haiti Ali, is only fourteen years older than Roger Delgado, who plays her son Hasmid Ali in the film.

• This is the only known acting work for Toolsie Persaud.

Body Count

• Men-Ta's wife - Dies in childbirth.
• Men-Ta - Killed by Almen-Ta's men.
• Kah-to-Bey - Dies from exposure.
• Almen-Ta - Overthrown; referenced only.
• Basil Walden - Head crushed by the mummy.
• Harry Newton - Acid thrown on face, then burned to death.
• Longbarrow - Thrown out of a hotel window by Prem.
• Stanley Preston - Strangled to death by Prem.
• Hasmid Ali - Shot in the back by Barrani.
• Prem - Turns to dust after Claire invokes a death spell.

External Links

• The Mummy's Shroud at AMG
• The Mummy's Shroud at TCM
• The Mummy's Shroud at IMDB
• The Mummy's Shroud at Wikipedia
• The Mummy's Shroud at Themoviedb.org

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Videos

The Mummy's Shroud - Original Theatrical Trailer (1967) The Mummy's Shroud (1967) - Official Trailer (HD) The Mummy's Shroud - Mummy Turns to Dust (Official Clip) The Mummy's Shroud - The Mummy Kills Again (Official Clip) The Mummy's Shroud - Desecrating the Tomb (Official Clip) The Mummy's Shroud (1967) - Death Is Coming (HD)