Starring Lee Beggs, Constance Talmadge, Billy Quirk, Joel Day, Nellie Anderson
Directed by Lee Beggs
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
A young man disguises a vagrant as an Egyptian mummy and sells him to a scientist so he can obtain enough money to marry the scientist's daughter.
We have here an early comedy short notable for the presence of Talmadge, one of a trio of sisters famed for their parts in silent films. It's also interesting as perhaps a hint of inspiration for future Mummy films, as the scientist (played by director Beggs), creates an "elixir of life" for returning consciousness to ancient mummies. As a comedy, it's fairly entertaining if not laugh out loud, although I did laugh when the scientist puts a notice in the want ads that he's willing to pay for an Egyptian mummy. I guess that's how you got anything you needed back then.
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