Pharaoh's Curse

Pharaoh's Curse (1957)

Genres - Mystery  |   Sub-Genres - Creature Film, Crime Thriller, Melodrama, Supernatural Horror  |   Release Date - Feb 1, 1957 (USA - Unknown)  |   Run Time - 66 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein

Producer Howard W. Koch's impoverished Bel-Air company lensed this quasi-horror film somewhere in California's Death Valley. Affecting a none-too-convincing British accent Mark Dana stars as Captain Storm, heading a colonial escort to a lonely archeological dig in Egypt in 1902. Along the way, the party, which includes the American wife (Diane Brewster) of the chief archeologist (George N. Neise), encounters a mysterious girl, Simira (Ziva Shapir aka Ziva Rodann, "Miss Israel of 1957), who warns them not to mess with the dead. They do anyway, of course, drawing the ire of the Gods. One by one, the scientists are decimated by Simira's brother Numar (Alvaro Guillot), who is the reincarnation of the tomb keeper and grows older by the minute.

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archaeology, expedition, mummy, curse, Egyptian [nationality], guardian, pharaoh, revenge, supernatural, aging, Britain, evil, sister, tomb, vampire