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TONIGHT! ONE HOUR EARLIER- Evil Sprouts from "The Bad Seed"!

Tonight, on MeTV- Christopher Lee steps into the role of yet another classic creature- and Peter Cushing again is the man who must try to stop him! It’s Hammer Studios take on the familiar story of the search for the lost tomb of Princess Ananka- which leads to the resurrection of “The Mummy”!

This 1959 color version of the story borrows plot points from not only Universal’s original “The Mummy”- but also its sequels “Mummy’s Hand”, “Mummy’s Tomb” and “Mummy’s Ghost”. As this origin story begins, we see archeologists Stephen Banning and Joseph Whemple, as well as Banning’s son John at a dig site in Egypt in 1895. Despite having broken his leg, John delays getting it taken care of...

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