Cowboy star Tom Tyler certainly makes a strapping Mummy, perhaps more so than Lon Chaney, Jr. who replaced him in the following three films and who was chosen more for his exploitative name than for any thespian talents. Not that acting had much to do with playing a dead guy rolled up in bandages, but like Boris Karloff before him, Tyler manages to portray emotion with his eyes only. Universal spared every expense in making this "sequel" to the 1935 Karloff classic The Mummy, using leftover sets from Green Hell (1939) and quite a bit of footage from the original. None of that really matters, however; The Mummy's Hand is still fine pulp fiction acted by a stock company that had done this sort of thing many times before. If the film lacks the truly scary moments of the original, it compensates by repeating the now familiar story slightly tongue-in-cheek. Leading players Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco (despite being shot three times at close range) and, via stock footage, Peggy Moran all returned for a second helping in The Mummy's Tomb (1942) which, to his detriment, transferred Kharis from his Egyptian haunts to modern-day America.