Starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour
Directed by Charles Lamont
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
Bud and Lou finds themselves caught in ancient Egypt between a gang eager to loot a mummy's tomb for treasure, and the followers of the mummy, not to mention the ancient living mummy itself.
The last of the "Abbott and Costello Meet The Monsters" series doesn't have much of a connection to Universal's Mummy films of the past, changing the name of the mummy from Kharis to Klaris, and costuming him in a fairly routine outfit, played by a growling stuntman. That's too bad in many respects, but the film is still quite enjoyable and entertaining, with some clever gags concocted out of the Egyptian setting, and it showcases one of the comedy duo's best routines, in which the two try to hide a cursed medallion in the hamburgers they are eating. The music selections are atmospheric, and the supporting cast good- Windsor as the leader of the gang is enjoyable, and Richard Deacon, playing it straight as Klaris' cult leader, cuts a different figure than we're used to from his appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show, where he was invariably the butt of the joke. Despite the fun and merriment, one wishes for more of the trappings of the earlier Mummy films, but it had to be clear by the time they made this that the classic monsters days at Universal were long since past.
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