The Mummy’s Shroud *** (1967, André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Maggie Kimberly, Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Ripper, Roger Delgado, Catherine Lacey) – Classic Movie Review 3,272

André Morell and David Buck star as explorers who uncover the tomb of an ancient Egyptian Mummy, in director John Gilling’s 1967 Hammer horror film The Mummy’s Shroud. 

‘Warning: to every creature of flesh and blood! Beware the beat of the cloth-wrapped feet!’

André Morell and David Buck star as explorers who uncover the tomb of an ancient Egyptian Mummy, in director John Gilling’s 1967 British DeLuxe colour horror film The Mummy’s Shroud, made by Hammer Film Productions. 

Stuntman Eddie Powell (Christopher Lee’s regular stunt double) plays the Mummy of an Egyptian slave, who is brought back to life to wreak revenge on his enemies in the England of 1920, in director John Gilling’s atmospheric 1967 Hammer horror The Mummy’s Shroud – the third part of the series following The Mummy in 1959 and The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb in 1964.

John Phillips plays Stanley Preston, a tycoon who organises an expedition to Egypt to bring the Mummy back to Britain to show in a gallery. But of course the Mummy soon breaks free and goes on the rampage. It also stars André Morell as Sir Basil Walden, David Buck as Paul Preston and Elizabeth Sellars as Barbara Preston.

Hammer Films try to resurrect the Mummy series by abandoning fantasy and giving the film an interesting air of realism that was lacking in the earlier movies, but otherwise they are short of new ideas and fresh inspiration. They have a cast of solid actors, but otherwise they are short of big name stars, though André Morell and John Phillips carry on valiantly with what they are offered (but where are Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee when we need them?). David Buck as Paul Preston and Elizabeth Sellars as Barbara Preston seem lost and out of their comfort zone. However, character actors Michael Ripper as Longbarrow, Roger Delgado as Hasmid, and Catherine Lacey as Haiti compensate with amusing turns.

The script and production have their downsides and deficiencies, betrayed by the low budget, but John Gilling writes a reasonably sturdy screenplay from an original story by Anthony Hinds (billed as John Elder) and directs the movie imaginatively and robustly enough, though it takes way too long to get the Mummy rampaging.

Also in the cast are Catherine Lacey, Maggie Kimberley, Michael Ripper as Longbarrow, Roger Delgado, Tim Barrett, Richard Warner and Dickie Owen.

Dickie Owen, who played the Mummy in the previous entry The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb, here plays Prem, the character who becomes the Mummy, but is replaced by Eddie Powell as the actual Mummy.

The uncredited narrator in the too talky, endless seeming prologue is British actor Tim Turner.

It is the last Hammer film to feature a bandaged mummy and the last Hammer film made at Bray Studios.

Release: 15 March 1967 (US) and 18 June 1967 (UK).

When originally released in the UK, the BBFC made cuts for a X rating, but in 1995 the uncut film had a PG certificate on home video. 

Runtime: 90 minutes.

The desert scene in the prologue is obviously shot in a quarry, and the same quarry represents the same desert thousands of years later with not even a change in the piles of sand. 

The Mummy genre was more successfully revived by Hammer in Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1972) before its eventual flourishing in the age of CGI with The Mummy (1999). Tom Cruise fights the monster in The Mummy (2017). Lee Cronin’s The Mummy premiered in Los Angeles on 9 April 2026, and was released in the US on 17 April 2026 by Warner Bros.

The cast

The cast are André Morell as Sir Basil Walden, John Phillips as Stanley Preston, David Buck as Paul Presto, Elizabeth Sellars as Barbara Presto, Maggie Kimberly as Claire, Michael Ripper as Longbarrow, Tim Barrett as Harry, Richard Warner as Inspector Barrani, Roger Delgado as Hasmid, Catherine Lacey as Haiti, Dickie Owen as Prem, Bruno Barnabe as Pharaoh, Toni Gilpin as Pharaoh’s Wife, Toolsie Persaud as Kah-to-Bey, Eddie Powell as The Mummy, Andreas Malandrinos as Curator, John Roshi as Arab Cleaner, Tim Turner as Narrator.

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