Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled

Daddy may be mad, but he's not stupid and he wants his daughter to marry a man with some money. Daddy has also put an ad in the newspaper, to buy an Egyptian mummy for experiments, so his would-be son-in-law buys a sarcophagus and hires a guy to play the mummy.

It's a pretty good comedy from 1918, with a a pleasantly complicated story and an appeal to the public interest in Egypt that would peak the following decade with the opening of King Tut's tomb. This film from the Ebony Film company, like the others, starred Black actors and was primarily tended for the all-Black movie houses of the era. The surviving print isn't in very good shape, but it's more than worth your time to look at.