The Mummy's Shroud 1967 Written by John Gilling and Anthony Hinds, directed by John Gilling. A Hammer film that I don't ever remember seeing in the past. It's not on my watched movie list but that only goes back to 1989.
An archaeologist and a rich guy find a tomb thought to be home to the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey. A flashback tells us of the overthrow of Kah-To-Bey's father and the boy's escape into the desert with his father's servant Prem. The boy dies and Prem takes the boy's medallion. When they open the tomb and find the mummy, it's the medallion that makes them think it's Kah-To-Bey in the tomb. The mummified body is put on display at the Cairo Museum. The scene above is after they've found the grave of Kah-To-Bey, it's Prem propped up in the sarcophagus and the boy Pharaoh in the foreground.
The archaeologist and the rich guy are warned off before they open the tomb but they don't listen. A secret society resurrects the mummy and sure enough it starts killing people. The rich guy takes advantage of the archaeologist and puts him in a mental asylum while he's a bit sick from snake bite. The rich guy wants all the credit for the expedition. The archaeologist escapes the asylum and is killed by the mummy shortly after. Even the rich guy can't escape the creature, it just keeps on coming.
A fairly decent mummy film but no where near as good as The Mummy, the first of the Universal Mummy films. Hammer's film is in color and it looks fine. It's a bit low budget but most of it works well enough. I'd still watch it again. You can see a decent copy on YouTube. Link above.
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