The Mummy Unwrapped

The mummy came to life in the 1940s out of Universal Pictures' need to produce quick turnaround, low budget "B" movies. This book is devoted entirely to Universal's Mummy movies of the 1940s. It reveals lost action and dialogue by analyzing scenes that were edited out days before The Mummy's Hand was released to theaters, treats readers to other dialogue that was filmed and then cut down to almost nothing before being included in the films, and compares and contrasts the original story of The Mummy's Return to the final shooting script of what was later renamed The Mummy's Curse. Each of the films has its own chapter, and chapters are also devoted to the actors who played the heroes, heroines, high priests, victims, and mummies in the films, and to the filmmakers who brought the mummies to life.Feramisco, Thomas M. is the author of 'The Mummy Unwrapped', published 2007 under ISBN 9780786437344 and ISBN 0786437340.