Mummy, The (1959)

Date: 1959
Director: Terence Fisher
Production Company: Hammer Films

Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne, George Pastell
Location(s): Berkshire

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In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka despite being warned of a terrible curse against desecrators.

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  • 03 Dec 2021

Stephen Banning recovers from a catatonic state at the Engerfield Nursing Home for the Mentally Disordered after reading from the Scroll of Life inside the tomb of Princess Ananka in Egypt. Trying to unravel the puzzle of this location, Finlay Ferguson believes that this scene was shot within the grounds of Oakley Court in Berkshire with a prop gateway added.

Finlay provides this comparison of the likely spot for this and the following location which were cited during a tour of Oakley Court.

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  • 03 Dec 2021

Kharis (Christopher Lee) makes his way into the Nursing Home where he enacts revenge on Stephen Banning. This is inside the grounds of Oakley Court thinks Finlay Ferguson

Finlay points out that the road here still looks similar 60 odd years later.

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  • 08 Mar 2024

John Banning (Peter Cushing) and Inspector Mulrooney (Eddie Byrne) chase after Kharis as he carries Isobel Banning away. Hammer's studios at Down Place, Bray near Maidenhead in Berkshire. The building is also featured in 'The House Across the Lake', 'Dracula: Prince of Darkness', 'Death of an Angel' and 'The Curse of Frankenstein'.

Bray Studios Ballroom Stage captured by Stuart Robins from the opposite bank of the Thames with a long lens through foliage.