The Mummy's Ghost (1944)

An Egyptian priest travels to America in search of the bodies of an Egyptian princess and her living, mummified guardian, with consequences.

Director:

Reginald Le Borg (as Reginald LeBorg)

Writers:

Griffin Jay (story), Henry Sucher (story)

Stars:

Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery

1 nomination.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Lon Chaney Jr.	...	Kharis (as Lon Chaney)
John Carradine	...	Yousef Bey
Robert Lowery	...	Tom Hervey
Ramsay Ames	...	Amina Mansouri
Barton MacLane	...	Inspector Walgreen
George Zucco	...	High Priest
Frank Reicher	...	Professor Matthew Norman
Harry Shannon	...	Sheriff
Emmett Vogan	...	Coroner
Lester Sharpe	...	Doctor Ayad
Claire Whitney	...	Mrs. Norman
Oscar O'Shea	...	Watchman

Storyline

An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to loose control of the mummy.

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Plot Keywords:

high priest | tragedy | interracial relationship | sleepwalking | trance | 

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Taglines:

NO CHAINS Can Hold It! NO TOMB Can Seal It!

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Genres:

Fantasy | Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 July 1944 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Mummy's Return

Filming Locations:

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

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

61 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Second of Lon Chaney Jr.'s three "Mummy" features, filmed from August 23-September 1, 1943, but not released until June 30, 1944 (copyrighted 1943) .

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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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Quotes

Andoheb: Now swear by the ancient Egyptian gods, that you will never rest until the Princess Anaka and Kharis have been returned to their rightful resting place, in these tombs...

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Connections

Featured in Ali (2001)

User Reviews

The Mummy Rises Again!

"The Mummy's Ghost" is a sequel to "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942). In that film Kharis the Mummy (Lon Chaney) perished in a house fire. Also the old high priest (George Zucco) dies of old age while handing over his powers to a new high priest. In this film we find out that not only did Kharis survive the fire unscathed but the old high priest turns up alive and shaking.

This entry has the High Priest Yousef Bey (John Carradine) being assigned the task of going to America to retrieve the mummies of Kharis and his queen Ananka. Hero Tom Hervey (Robert Lowery) is courting a beautiful Egyptian by the name of Amina Mansouri (Ramsay Ames). Meanwhile Yousef Bey sets about arranging to take the two mummies back to Egypt. To this end he unleashes Kharis upon the community to murder anyone who stands in their way.

At the same time Amina starts to experience blackouts as she is being gradually taken over by the spirit of Ananka (the "ghost" of the title) to become the re-incarnation of Queen Ananka. This suddenly becomes a point of issue between Kharis and Yousef Bey until......

Becoming a "B" movie second feature series, the films did nonetheless benefit from Universal's expertise in making this kind of film. Although it features a "B" list cast and runs a scant 61 minutes, it is still an entertaining way to spend an hour.

Lon Chaney would continue in the role of the Mummy in "The Mummy's Curse" (1944) the final film in the series.