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I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The Mummy's Ghost is the third in the "Kharis" the Mummy series and Griffin Jay's script is more or less a rehash of the same old lady in distress plot line of the first two with a twist ending that is a grabber.Director Reggie LeBorg was Chaney's buddy and knew Lon would be pretty well crooked when the lunch break was over, particularly when Lon was in his mummy makeup. Jack Pierce got very tired of Lon's constant gripping and moaning about it. There is a story that LeBorg told about the scene where Kharis strangles Prof Norman. Frank Reicher was one of Hollywood's most respected character actors. When the scene started rolling, Chaney went charging in,grabbed Reicher by the throat and pushed him into the wall. Chaney had been hitting the bottle and was pumped. When Chaney broke off, Reicher screamed "He almost killed me!" and proceeded to verbally ream Chaney a new one, calling him unprofessional and stupid. Chaney just sat there in his mummy makeup muttering an apology and shivering in shame. Chaney's glass breaking scene when Ananka's mummy dissolves is yet another legend. Again he fortified himself with some Jack Daniels and did the whole scene himself without a stuntman. He cut his chin under his mask on a shard of glass, you can see the blood at the end of the scene.Acquanetta had been originally cast in the Amina/Ananka role but she injured herself on the first day of shooting. Ben Pivar claimed, however, that LeBorg had demanded that she be replaced during rehearsals because of her poor acting. Anyway, the beautiful Ramsay Ames was thrown into the part with just a few days notice, which may account for her confused look.in most of her scenes. Ramsay had been hired to appear in musicals because of her singing and dancing talent but Universal kept casting her in horror and mystery films. Robert Lowery was way too old to play a college student and wasn't happy about being cast in the movie. He seemed to have a "lets get this thing over with attitude" throughout the film.The plot holes and lack of continuity in the Mummy series are well known and have been pointed out in many knowledgeable sources. Kharis is a killing machine and not a sympathetic creature as some of the other Universal monsters are. His tendency to kill senior citizens is yet another reason not to root for him. Watching The Mummy's Ghost isn't the worst way to spend an hour and is essential if your are following the series.

In a lot of ways, the original Universal Mummy series of movies set the blueprint for what a horror sequel should be. Consider all of the similarities to modern series like Friday THE 13th. The monster keeps returning film after film, even though we've seen him destroyed each time. Even more, there is seldom any rational explanation given for his return, he just simply is back because the studio needed him to be. Though there is some half-hearted attempt to connect the continuity of the series, for the most part each of the movies features completely different actors in completely different scenarios, the only common thread being the monster itself. Each sequel supplanted the atmosphere and quality of the original by increasing the violence and sex (okay, so by sex I'm talking about a hip-hugging night gown in this case, but it's the 40s, right). At this point in the Mummy series, they are pretty much following a cookie cutter format. We have George Zucco as the high priest of an Egyptian order initiating a new priest (in this case John Carradine). That priest's purpose is to resurrect Kharis the Mummy to avenge some wrong. Queue up a few random murders from the Mummy until we meet the modern reincarnation of the lost princess. Some drama unfolds until the Mummy can kidnap her, but instead the priest falls in love with her and ruins everything. I am not lumping the original Karloff classic into this mold. That's an excellent atmospheric creeper with a dreamlike tone, but the four Kharis movies pretty much follow the same path but with diminishing quality.If there are "positives" here I would say that Chaney puts some more effort into his role as Kharis in this one that he did in the previous MUMMY'S TOMB. I still don't understand why one arm doesn't work and I miss the hollow eyes that they employed in MUMMY'S HAND, but he's more physically imposing in this one. Also, this is the only classic horror film I can recount from memory that does not have your standard "hero saves the day" ending. I don't want to spoil too much, but it's pretty dark for a movie from this time period.Most everything else about this movie pales in comparison to the ones before it. The boyfriend and his college pals are just bad actors, with some terrible dialog written for them. They are just there for nothing more than to move the plot along. Same goes for the museum types and the police, who are all cardboard and offered nothing much to do. Even John Carradine, who I normally enjoy, is not nearly the maniacal villain that the previous priests were.It's not awful and there's still a lot of fun to be had in this movie, but it's not one of the best Uni sequels by any sort.

This was made in 1943, but not released until 1944, probably because audiences probably hated it.The movies starts out with George Zucco (still alive despite dying in the two previous installments) commissioning John Carradine to find the princess' mummy because Tuhran Bey failed so miserably in the last film. Killing off the last of the Bannings seems to have been forgotten, I guess the hero of the last movie got killed in WWII or something.The ending is kind of nihilistic, in that the girl gets turned into a mummy for no other reason than she was the only Egyptian chick within range of the Primcess Mummy when it disintegrated.It pads out its requisite 60 minutes with a lot of needless chase scenes and scenes of poor Lon Chaney shambling around sideways.

Here we have the 3rd of 4 movies in Universal's Mummy series. You don't really need to describe the plot because I think it is pretty much the same in every one of these Mummy films. Mummy meets girl. Mummy and girl fall in love, violating the laws of Amon-Ra in the process. Mummy and girl are cursed and buried for thousands of years. Mummy is woken up by rude explorers. Mummy kills explorers. Mummy tries to reunite with girl, who is now a pile of moldy rags.MUMMY'S GHOST takes place in poor, little Mapleton Massachusetts. Kharis has been presumably just wandering around the countryside like a dirty hippie since the end of the last mummy movie. When a professor brew up some nice Tana leave tea Kharis comes running (in a manner of speaking) like a hungry hound at chow time, kills the Prof. and guzzles down the tana tea. At the same time, yet another high priest is skulking about trying to get Kharis and Ananka, who is cooling her moldy heels in the local museum, back to Egypt. But you know how it goes with mummies. One thing leads to another and the high priest realizes that Ananka's soul resides in the body (meeOW) of a local girl, Amina Mansouri. He starts out trying to kill Mansouri in order to free Ananka's soul so it can return to her old mummy body (EWW!) but decides to keep her for himself and nuts to Kharis and the laws of Amon-Ra. Well sir, Kharis doesn't much cotton to this idea and he throws the high priest out a window and over a cliff. He then grabs Mansouri and carries her into one of Massachusetts many, many swamps where he and the rapidly aging Mansouri/Ananka sink into quicksand.Lon Chaney does a great job as Kharis. He actually manages to convey some emotion through the make-up, and there are a few times when the mummy is portrayed as a relentless, unstoppable juggernaut of destruction. There is a tiny bit of humor and more suspense than I was expecting . I found the Mummy's Ghost especially interesting in the way the townspeople were so accepting of the fact that a mummy was loose in their town. They gathered together, rather calmly to discuss how they were going to deal with it. I guess it just shows the scrappy attitude of people in that day when they can just comfortably roll up their sleeves and go out on a mummy hunt, as if they were going out to trap gophers . Mapleton is one Bad a$$ town.There is nothing classic about this movie, it was made quickly and cheaply and it shows. But it gives you what all b movies should: an hour or so of decent, escapist entertainment.