The Ancient Egypt Film Site

Production info

L'Anneau Fatal
France, 1912
Jean Aymé, Renée Carl, Jean Devalde
Directed by Louis Feuillade

An Egyptian tomb is excavated under the supervision of Napoleon Bonaparte, but one soldier steals a cursed scarab ring from the mummy that causes anyone who possesses it to die. The soldier's sweetheart dreams of a mummy and is then killed by a burglar; an antique dealer obtains the ring and dies with blotches on his arms and a man who buys the ring is shot. An Egyptologist returns the ring back to the mummy causing the ancient's eyes to glow.

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