Egypt 1920, Sir Basil Walden, with his assistants Claire, Harry and Paul Preston, stumble on the sealed desert tomb of the young Pharaoh Ka-to-Bey. With the expedition late on returning, Stanley Preston, father of Paul and financer of the expedition is forced, against his cowardly nature, into joining the search for the missing archaeologists, accompanied by his agent Longbarrow.

He arrives at the dig, insisting that they excavate, despite the warnings of the fanatical Hasmid Ali, the guardian of the tomb, who says that all who enter will die. The mummy and its shroud, bearing a coded inscription wich Claire, the superstitious language expert will not decypher, are put on display along with the Mummy of Prem, the Pharaoh's faithful slave.

Intent on stealing the glory for himself, Preston has the exhausted Sir Basil placed in an asylum. He escapes, only to meet death at the hands of the Mummy Prem, who has been brought to life to guard his master Ka-to-Bey by Ali, using the secret formula from the shroud.

When Harry and Longbarrow are killed, Preston abandons his wife Barbara and their son to their fate, but is killed before he can leave country. Armed with advice from Haiti, a sinister fortune-teller, Claire and Paul go to the museum, where as Ali orders the Mummy to kill them, Clair recites the sacred words of death, forcing the Mummy to tear itself apart.

The End

Cast

Andre Morell - Sir Basil Walden

John Philips - Stanley Preston

Davis Buck - Paul Preston

Elizabeth Sellars - Barbara Preston

Maggie Kimberley - Claire de Sangre

Michael Ripper - Longbarrow

Tim Barret - Harry

Catherine Lacey - Haiti

Eddie Powell - The Mummy

Richard Warner - Inspector Barrani

Roger Delgado - Hasmid

Director - John Gilling

Producer - Anthony Nelson Key

Screenplay - John Gilling, from an original story by John Elder

Music - Don Banks