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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 4461
Released: October 19, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
For the first time ever, the original The Mummy film comes to DVD in this extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic, starring the renowned Boris Karloff, and four timeless sequels, featuring legendary action Lon Chaney, Jr. and others. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day
The Mummy - The Legacy Collection (The Mummy/Mummy's Hand/Mummy's Tomb/Mummy's Ghost/Mummy's Curse) Reviews:
The Mummy - The Legacy 
2009-12-06 - This is an excellent movie with Boris Carloff as the mummy. Inspired by the artifacts and mummy found in king Tut's tomb laid the foundation and basis of the high tech mummy movies of today.
This movie was probably limited by it's day, mention was made of the power of the mummy but not much was done to demonstrate it's power other then a few killings and some mind control.
A must see for any serious0 fan of the current day mummy movies if for no other reason but to see where the roots were planted that some 70 years ago.
This particular set comes with all the sequel mummy movies where the mummy was played by Lon Chaney Jr., these were a bit lower quality in plot, but still helped to lay the foundation of the modern day mummy movies.
Not as scary as I remembered
2009-11-07 - This is another horror classic that I used to love in my younger years along with Dracula and Frankenstein. I remember hiding under the living room couch upon watching the mummy slithering along the sand. The creature is still creepy today, but not as scary anymore. Horror films are not made like this anymore. Blood, destruction, sex, violence and gore would be today's standards to amuse the blood-thirsty public. Even in B/W The Mummy and sequels are still excellent productions of the original monster films. They're well worth owning.
The original is (almoist) always the best 
2009-11-03 - This B & W movie of "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff is a magnificent example of how children can be scared out of their pants and utterly delighted at the same time. I saw the movie a couple of times as a kid and several more times as an adult. Now that I am fast approaching retirement age, I find that it is just as entertaining as it was 50 years ago. The makeup on Mr. Karloff is utterly believable and, if his body position when he walks appears a little silly, so what? It is the rest of the time that the mummy sends chills down your back. The flashbacks are great and give us an understanding of his unending search for his lost love, the princess, now embodied in the movie's heroine in this century (or was it last century?).
Regardless of the few minor imperfections in this original version of "The Mummy", I found it to be just as entertaining as it was when I first saw it and even spookier in black and white that it is in the modern color version. No one will ever beat Boris Karloff in this role. He lends just the right amounts of pathos and evil, so that you find yourself wishing he could recover his lost love, just don't let her be the heroine of this particular movie because she is already taken.
Buy it, keep it, watch it periodically and, when you get to be my age, I hope you will enjoy it just as much as I have.
the mummy 1 2 3 4 5
2009-09-02 - i think the mummy s curse is the bettter one butbthaths your decisicion and the mummy is the worse
By the dread power of Seth don't miss these
2009-07-30 - Great fun!! I grew up watching these on late night tv and they still provide the same enjoyment. Timeless thrills and laughs. Buy them or Kharis will find you!!
