Set in 1902, 'Pharoah's Curse' is well acted, with a characteristically atmospheric score by Les Baxter. The location work - apparently shot in just one day in Death Valley - and Col. Cross's office in the opening scene and the Pharoah's tomb itself provide atmospheric backdrops (possibly recycled from other productions); but once the cast eventually open the tomb they spend most of the rest of the film just wandering back and forth along its passages carrying torches and talking. And talking. The monster itself behaves more like a vampire than an Egyptian mummy, but looks memorably dessicated and demonstrates how brittle he has become when his arm breaks off in the hero's hand; thus obligingly providing a sample for the doctor to examine.
The exotic-looking and even more exotically accented Ziva Shapir as Ziva Rodann later played Nefertiti in the 1966 Batman story 'The Curse of Tut'/'The Pharoah's in a Rut', and Richard Peel, who played Sgt. Gromley, also featured in 'Batman' as Sandman's henchman 'Snooze'.
The exotic-looking and even more exotically accented Ziva Shapir as Ziva Rodann later played Nefertiti in the 1966 Batman story 'The Curse of Tut'/'The Pharoah's in a Rut', and Richard Peel, who played Sgt. Gromley, also featured in 'Batman' as Sandman's henchman 'Snooze'.