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The Mummy's Curse (1944) - Movie Review

#UniversalMonsters #TheMummy #LonChaneyJr Now I understand this as the final Mummy monster classic film (other than the silly Abbott and Costello one) so going into this, I really hope ol' Kharis gets a break and they stop reanimating him once and for all. Workers are given instruction from their manager that they need to drain the swamp, but they are freaked out that it's cursed, and ah, as we know from the "Mummy's Ghost", ol' Kharis and his bride submerged into the swamp at the end of that film, so, ah ha. The cranky old project manager isn't happy about two guys showing up, Dr. James Halsey (Dennis Moore) and Dr. Ilzor Zandaab (Peter Coe), but we've got to get things going, because we the viewer know there's a mummy out there in the swamps. Zandaab secretly sneaks into the swamp and meets with Ragheb (Martin Kosleck) who is part of the Arkam sect, and Zandaab is secretly a High Priest. I didn't completely follow who these guys were and what they were up to, but you know they're up to trouble basically. Sure enough, they've found Kharis and have him in a sarchophagus. And he's brewing up tana leaves again. To the credit of this film, it does give a nice recap of the events of the previous films though, with actual flashback sequences. The mummy is given some tasty tana leaf tea and soon is up and about and killing the owner of the tomb who stops in to see what's going on. Then we cut over to the princess Anaka, who soon rises from the mud in a pretty cool sequence. She wears what looks like very uncomfortable mud makeup, and that scene of her staggering around, caked in mud, dramatically re-animating, was actually pretty cool. She goes into a pond to clean up and then later staggers through the woods, where she is found by one of the workers, who brings her back to town. The mummy goes after her, she runs off and is rescued by different camp workers and, after a good night's sleep, apparently is healthy, vibrant, and speaks English, and looking somewhat like Betty Page. Ok, whatever. A fair amount of the rest of the film is the reanimated Ananka on the run from Kharis, and being apprehended and then brought back to the secret Egyptian temple thing. I'll spare the spoilers, but I'll say this much: here at mummy film #5. I was hoping for more of a send-off for our old friend Kharis, a sense of closure, and instead - well, they easily could have gone right into another universal classic mummy film based on how this one ended. It was a fun monster film, but the ending wasn't so stellar. Some closing thoughts: so as I do these reviews I like to read some of the trivia about the film, not just for the review but for my own amusement, and one of the things that made me laugh was that according to actress Virginia Christine (Ananka), when Lon Chaney Jr carried her around, connected to him by a kind of harness, he was apparently drunk through most of the picture, and in the scenes where he carries her up the steep steps of the shrine, "he is absolutely stoned" and was "weaving , going side-to-side on these uneven steps", which would have been creepy since they were connected with a harness. I guess eventually the director brought in a stand in. Ah man, come on Lon Chaney... And no George Zucco here as the old Egyptian priest that vaguely resembles Alan Arkin, which was a shame. He's been in most of these Kharis films but not this final one I guess. This was the 5th and final of the Universal Classic "Mummy" series of features-- that is until Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mum...