Editing Hammer Film Productions (section)

===''The Mummy''===
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With the agreement in place, Hammer's executives had their pick of Universal International's horror icons and chose to remake ''[[The Invisible Man (1933 film)|The Invisible Man]]'', ''[[Phantom of the Opera (1943 film)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'', and ''[[The Mummy's Hand]]''. All were to be filmed in colour at Bray Studios, by the same team responsible for ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' and ''Dracula''. ''[[The Mummy (1959 film)|The Mummy]]'' (the title used for the remake of ''The Mummy's Hand'', which also incorporated significant story elements from that film's first two sequels, ''[[The Mummy's Tomb]]'' and ''[[The Mummy's Ghost]]'') was made in 1959, ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'' followed in 1962, and Hammer collaborated with [[William Castle]] on a remake of ''[[The Old Dark House (1963 film)|The Old Dark House]]'' in 1963. ''The Invisible Man'' was never produced.

Principal photography for ''The Mummy'' began on 23 February 1959 and lasted until 16 April 1959. Once again it starred both Peter Cushing (as John Banning) and Christopher Lee (as Kharis the Mummy), and was directed by Terence Fisher from a screenplay from Jimmy Sangster. ''The Mummy'' went into general release on 23 October 1959 and broke the box-office records set by ''Dracula'' the previous year, both in Great Britain and the U.S. when it was released there in December.{{sfn|Kinsey|2005|page=166}}