The Mummy's Curse (1944)

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An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths Kharis the living mummy (Lon Chaney Jr.), who was buried in quicksand 25 years earlier. Movie Tagline: ALL NEW THRILLS -- as the most dreaded curse of the ages strikes again! (Realart re-release ad) Title: Mummy's Curse, The Release Date: December 22, 1944 Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Horror All Genres: Horror Languages: English Country: USA Colors: Black and White Sound: Mono IMDB Rating: 5.2 Brimstone Pit Rating: 6.2 - (Rate This Horror Movie) Category: Horror Movies Starting With M MPAA Rating: Unrated Director(s): Leslie Goodwins Cast: Lon Chaney Jr. ...Kharis (as Lon Chaney) Peter Coe ...Dr. Ilzor Zandaab Virginia Christine ...Princess Ananka Kay Harding ...Betty Walsh Dennis Moore ...Dr. James Halsey Martin Kosleck ...Ragheb Kurt Katch ...Cajun Joe Addison Richards ...Pat Walsh Holmes Herbert ...Dr. Cooper Charles Stevens ...Achilles William Farnum ...Michael, the Sacristan Napoleon Simpson ...Goobie Eddie Abdo ...Pierre Nina Bara ...young Cajun woman in Cafe Budd Buster ...Cajun with pipe at bar Ann Codee ...Tante Berthe James Crane ...The Pharoah in flashback (archive footage) Heenan Elliott ...Construction worker Al Ferguson ...Construction worker Herbert Heywood ...Hill Boris Karloff ...Kharis in flashback, bandaging sequence (archive... Jack Lorenz ...Bulldozer driver Tony Santaro ...Ulysses Hector Sarno ...Cajun in Cafe Tom Tyler ...Kharis in flashback (archive footage) Remaining Cast: Producer(s): Oliver Drake Ben Pivar Writer(s): Leon Abrams Dwight V. Babcock Bernard Schubert Oliver Drake Ted Richmond Composer(s): William Lava Paul Sawtell More Photos from The Mummy's Curse Movie Soundtrack(s): "Hey, You!" More Movie Taglines: ALL NEW THRILLS -- as the most dreaded curse of the ages strikes again! (Realart re-release ad) 3000 YEARS OF TERROR...BREAKING LOOSE! (Realart re-release ad all caps) Egypt's ancient loves live again in evil! Buried fury, stalking to life from the depths of doom! New Thrills! New Terror! Movie Quote(s): Goobie: The devil's alive and he's dancing with the mummy. Cajun Joe: I know the swamp like my finger. Goobie: Dr. Halsey! Dr. Halsey! Dr. James Halsey: What is it, Goobie? Goobie: The mummy's alive and he's dancing with the devil. Princess Ananka: It's as though I were two different people. Sometimes it seems as if I belong to a different world. I find myself in strange surroundings with strange people. I cannot ever seem to find rest! And now Kharis! Movie Trivia: The Mummy (1932) was set in 1932, the year of its release. The first sequel, The Mummy's Hand (1940) is also chronologically coherent, set in 1940. The Mummy's Tomb (1942) takes place thirty years following the events of "Hand", with The Mummy's Ghost (1944) approximately two years after that. We learn that this movie is set an additional twenty five years after "Ghost", meaning that the events take place around 1997. The famous sequence in which Princess Ananka (Virginia Christine) rises from the dead in the swamp is slightly undercranked - a process that speeds up the action - which gives an eerie, unreal quality to her movements. The trick is given away by the overly fast movements of the branches around her. The mask worn by Lon Chaney Jr. in this film (and preserved by Bob Burns) is the only surviving example of Jack P. Pierce's makeup. Released on a double bill with The House of Fear (1945). IMDB Links: » User Comments at imdb.com » More information at imdb.com Keywords: Mummy, La Marseillaise, Monastery, Murder, Sequel  ...[more] Keywords All: Egyptian Curse, Swamp, Beautiful Woman, Secret Cult Seen it? Rate it Currently 6.20/10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Rating: 6.2 out of 10.0 - 69 votes cast total buy movie on dvd del.icio.us  |  digg  |  reddit Enter your zipcode for movie listings: » BACK TO HORROR MOVIES LIST