'The Mummy's Ghost' (B-Movie Review) -- Part Three

Saturday B-Movie Review

Are you ready for the next awesome part of this Mummy movie review?

I hope so, because here it is now! :)

First, read Part Two here!

So Police Inspector Walgreen (who also owns a chain of convenient drugstores) and some museum guy whose name doesn’t matter inspect the mess. And it takes them damn near forever, but they finally figure out that tana leaf tea = Mummy bait. Are these guys not geniuses?

Image via The Rellim Zone.

Meanwhile, Amina (Acid) continues to feel weird and haunted and tortured and all that. Not to mention that she’s dyed a white stripe in her hair reminiscent of the Bride of Frankenstein. So she and Tom plan to elope to New York, but not until the next day. Why do they always do that?

Image via Universal Monsters Universe.

Anyway, the Walgreen Inspector brews a batch of tana leaf tea to draw the Mummy in and (with any luck) catch him in a hidden pit. So, of course, the Mummy smells or senses the tana tea and makes its stiff-legged way to the house. And, of course, Princess Leia Ananka (or is it Amina?) goes sleepwalking again. And, well … who didn’t see this coming?

Image via Cinema Cats.

So, yeah. The Mummy picks her up and goose-steps away with her. So much for Inspector Walgreen’s plan. So much for that trip to New York.

The Mummy’s Ghost, USA 1944, Regie: Reginald Le Borg, Darsteller: Lon Chaney (Image via Age Fotostock.)

Tom the Stupid but Faithful Boyfriend follows them in lukewarm pursuit, as the citizens of Mapleton gather with torches ablaze to assist the police.

The Mummy stumble-marches across the terrain, some of it quite hilly. (And, for a Mummy, he has the agility of a mountain goat on those hills.) He eventually reaches an old rundown shack left over from a set used in The Grapes of Wrath at the top of 39 steps and then some. (And, man, can that Mummy climb stairs!)

Image via Scream Horror Magazine.

*****

Come back for the final, nail-biting finish of this … thing I wrote. :)

I’ll try not to keep you … waiting long …