The Mummy is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. It was written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions. The film was distributed in the U.S. in 1959 on a double bill with either the Vincent Price film The Bat or the Universal film Curse of the Undead.
Theatrical release poster
The sarcophagus prop in Perth Museum and Art Gallery.
Drive-in advertisement from 1959 for The Mummy and co-feature, Curse of the Undead.
Terence Fisher was a British film director best known for his work for Hammer Films.
On the set of Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Christopher Lee as the creature in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), a huge international success