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The Mummy's Ghost

Year:

1944

Duration:

61 min

Genres:

Horror

IMDB rate:

5.7

Director:

Reginald Le Borg

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1944-07-07

Filming Locations: Colonial Street, Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Martha Vickers

Lon Chaney Jr.

Kharis

John Carradine

Yousef Bey

Robert Lowery

Tom Hervey

Ramsay Ames

Amina Mansouri

Barton MacLane

Inspector Walgreen

George Zucco

Andoheb, High Priest of Arkan

Frank Reicher

Prof. Matthew Norman

Harry Shannon

Sheriff Elwood

Emmett Vogan

Coroner

Lester Sharpe

Dr. Ayad, Scripps Museum

Claire Whitney

Mrs. Ella Norman

Oscar O'Shea

Scripps Museum Watchman

Steve Barclay

Tom's Classmate (uncredited)

David Bruce

Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Caroline Frances Cooke

Townswoman (uncredited)

William Desmond

Museum Tourist (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Scared Pedestrian (uncredited)

Fay Holderness

Policewoman (uncredited)

Mira McKinney

Mrs. Martha Evans (uncredited)

Jack Rockwell

Second Deputy (uncredited)

Jack C. Smith

Deputy Joe (uncredited)

Pietro Sosso

Priest (uncredited)

Ivan Triesault

Scripps Museum Guide (uncredited)

Dorothy Vaughan

Mrs. Ada Blake (uncredited)

Carl Vernell

Student (uncredited)

Eddy Waller

Ben Evans (uncredited)

Anthony Warde

Detective at Museum (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

This is one of a very few Universal Horror Classics where the female lead doesn't survive the film.

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Although there are rumors that Lon Chaney Jr.;s scenes in the "Mummy" series frequently used doubles for Chaney, director Reginald Le Borg stated that Chaney did his own scenes in this film.

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According to director Reginald Le Borg in a 1989 interview, Lon Chaney Jr., as Kharis, went overboard in the scene in which he strangles Frank Reicher, although Chaney blocked the camera from picking up Reicher's reaction. The veteran actor was moaning, and exclaimed, "He nearly killed me!" According to LeBorg, Reicher was a veteran and didn't make a formal complaint, but the next day the director noticed his neck visibly bore the effects.

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Goofs

The opening speech by Andoheb is not consistent with the back story given in the other movies of the series. As well, Andoheb died at the beginning of the previous film.

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A stock shot of George Zucco climbing the temple steps from The Mummy's Hand is used to represent Yousef Bey (John Carradine), which means that by the time Carradine actually faces the now-elderly Zucco to receive instructions, he appears to have lost about forty pounds.

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When Kharis crashes through a fence early in the film, the lines indicating where the breakaway fence rails are set to break are clearly visible.

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Faq

Is 'The Mummy's Ghost' based on a book?

The Mummy's Ghost is the fourth movie in Universal Studio's Mummy series, preceded by The Mummy (1932), The Mummy's Hand (1940), and The Mummy's Tomb (1942) and followed by The Mummy's Curse (1944). The movie was filmed from a screenplay written by American screenwriters Griffin Jay, Henry Sucher, and Brenda Weisberg.

What is 'The Mummy's Ghost' about?

Egyptian Jousef Bey (John Carradine), a High Priest of Arkam, is sent to the U.S. to retrieve the mummified corpse of the 3,000 year old princess Ananka that is currently on display at the Scripp's Museum near Mapleton and to find and bring back to Egypt her protector, the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.), who somehow manages to exist after being burned to cinders in a fire. Meanwhile, Kharis' presence is somehow having a strange effect on a young Egyptian girl, Amina Mansori (Ramsay Ames), whose boyfriend Tom Hervey (Robert Lowery) is studying under prominent Egyptology Professor Matthew Norman (Frank Reicher), who is currently trying to unlock the secret of the Kharis' longevity.

So, this mummy is also a ghost?

Uncertain. It's mentioned only at the start of the movie that Kharis perished in the fire at the end of The Mummy's Tomb. The implication is that Kharis survived the fire (although no mention of a body is made), that he was somehow reanimated, or that the re-appearance of the Kharis mummy is a ghost. The movie goes no further in answering that question.

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