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Leslie Goodwins (17 September 1899 – 8 January 1969) was an English film director and screenwriter. He directed nearly 100 films between 1926 and 1967, notably 27 features and shorts with Leon Errol, including the Mexican Spitfire series.
Leslie Goodwins. Director: Dragnet. London-born Leslie Goodwins broke into Hollywood in the 1930s as a gag writer for two-reel comedies, and later directed several of them. He started directing features in 1936, specializing in knockabout comedies.
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- September 17, 1899
- Leslie Goodwins
- January 8, 1969
The Unknown Child (9 September 1910 – 15 April 1912) was the initially unidentified body of Sidney Leslie Goodwin, a 19-month-old British toddler who was recovered by the Mackay-Bennett after the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
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The Southern Engineering Company is trying to drain the local swamp for the public good. However, the efforts are being hampered by the superstitions of the workers, who believe the area to be haunted by the mummy and his bride. Two representatives of the Scripps Museum, Dr. James Halsey and Dr. Ilzor Zandaab, arrive on the scene and present their ...
Lon Chaney Jr. as Kharisthe MummyKay Harding as Betty WalshThis film follows the events at the end of the previous film where Ananka and Kharis perish in the swamp. The original working title for this film—the fifth in Universal's Mummy series—was The Mummy's Return.
The Mummy's Curse made use of footage from two of Universal's previous mummy films, The Mummy (1932) and The Mummy's Hand(1940). In the book It Came from Bob's Basement: Exploring the Science Fiction and Monster Movie Archive of Bob Burns, a book by horror and film collector Bob Burns, Burns has the last surviving piece of Jack Pierce's makeup whic...
The Mummy's Curse generally received moderate to poor reviews with criticism aimed at the use of stock footage and the confusion of the location of the story as New England is not known for its swamp areas. It holds a 44% fresh rating at the movie review site Rotten Tomatoes. Writing for Famous Monsters in 1962, Joe Dante Jr. included The Mummy's C...
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1. Dante, Jr., Joe (July 1962). "Dante's Inferno". Famous Monsters. Vol. 4, no. 3. Central Publications, Inc. 2. Smith, Don G. (May 1, 2004). Lon Chaney, Jr: Horror Film Star (1906-1973) (illustrated ed.). Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland & Company. p. 65. ISBN 9780786418138. 3. Luckhurst, Roger (October 25, 2012). The Mummy's Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (illustrated ed.). Oxford, England, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 17. ISBN 9780199698714. OCLC 843078296. 4. Day, J...
The Mummy's Curse at IMDbThe Mummy's Curse at AllMovieThe Mummy's Curse at the American Film Institute CatalogThe Mummy's Curse at the TCM Movie DatabaseLeslie Goodwins. Director: Dragnet. London-born Leslie Goodwins broke into Hollywood in the 1930s as a gag writer for two-reel comedies, and later directed several of them. He started directing features in 1936, specializing in knockabout comedies.
- September 17, 1899
- January 8, 1969
Leslie Goodwins was an English film director and screenwriter. He directed nearly 100 films between 1926 and 1967, notably 27 features and shorts with Leon Errol, including the Mexican Spitfire series.
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Leslie Goodwins (17 September 1899 – 8 January 1969) was an English film director and screenwriter. He directed nearly 100 films between 1926 and 1967. His 1936 film Dummy Ache was nominated for an Academy Award in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
