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5.7

The Mummy's Ghost

NR·1944·60m

Horror

Fantasy

Horror

Fantasy

Summary

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 lose control of the mummy...

Cast

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

Doctor Ayad

Claire Whitney

Ella Norman

Oscar O'Shea

Museum Watchman

Steve Barclay

Tom's Classmate (uncredited)

Jack C. Smith

Deputy Joe (uncredited)

David Bruce

Radio Announcer (uncredited; voice)

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Townsman (uncredited)

Oliver Cross

Museum Tourist (uncredited)

William Desmond

Museum Tourist (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Townswoman (uncredited)

Fay Holderness

Policewoman (uncredited)

Michael Jeffers

Townsman (uncredited)

Mira McKinney

Martha Evans (uncredited)

Jack Perrin

Townsman (uncredited)

Jack Rockwell

Deputy (uncredited)

Jack C. Smith

Deputy (uncredited)

Pietro Sosso

Priest (uncredited)

Ivan Triesault

Museum Guide (uncredited)

Dorothy Vaughan

Ada Blake (uncredited)

Carl Vernell

Student (uncredited)

Martha Vickers

Miss McLean - Student (uncredited)

Eddy Waller

Ben Evans (uncredited)

Anthony Warde

Detective at Museum (uncredited)

Caroline Frances Cooke

Townswoman (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Reginald Le Borg

Characters

Maxwell Shane

Characters, Screenplay, Story

Griffin Jay

Original Film Writer

John L. Balderston

Original Film Writer

Richard Schayer

Original Film Writer

Nina Wilcox Putnam

Screenplay

Brenda Weisberg

Screenplay, Story

Henry Sucher

Reviews

Geronimo1967

June 30, 2022

This film belongs to a suitably maniacal John Carradine as "Yousef Bey" who has been charged by the gods to empower the mummified body of the High Priest "Kharis" (Lon Chaney Jr. but it might as well have been anyone) to reunify with the Princess Ananka who appears to have reincarnated in the guise of "Amina" (the glamorous but terribly static Ramsey Ames). Who can stop this? Well that task falls to Robert Lowery ("Tom") who has to thwart the increasingly ambitious plotting of Carradine and his embalmed enforcer. I quite enjoyed it, but it has little of merit to recommend it; the action scenes are as lumbering as Chaney doing the cha-cha; the dialogue likewise and but for Carradine's eyes and a few scenes from George Zucco as the modern day High Priest, it would fall entirely by the wayside.