The Mummy's Ghost/The Mummy's Curse

Starring:Lon Chaney Jr., Peter Coe (III), Virginia Christine, Kay Harding, Dennis Moore, Martin Kosleck, Kurt Katch, Addison Richards, Holmes Herbert, Charles Stevens, William Farnum, Napoleon Simpson, Ann Codee, Herman Elliot, Boris Karloff, Nina Bara, Eddie Abdo, Herbert Heywood, Hector Sarno, Al Ferguson
Director: Leslie Goodwins, Reginald Le Borg
Studio: Universal Studios
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The Mummy - The Legacy Collection (The Mummy/Mummy's Hand/Mummy's Tomb/Mummy's Ghost/Mummy's Curse)

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The Mummy (1932)
A great collection
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THE FIRST IS STILL THE BEST! KARLOFF IS KING! PIERCE IS THE MASTER
Old original Mummy movies...........

The Mummy - The Legacy Collection (The Mummy/Mummy's Hand/Mummy's Tomb/Mummy's Ghost/Mummy's Curse)
Starring: Dick Foran , Peggy Moran , Wallace Ford , Eduardo Ciannelli , and George Zucco
Director: Christy Cabanne , Harold Young , and Leslie Goodwins
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B0002NRRQU
Release Date: 2004-10-19

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For the first time ever, the original The Mummy film comes to DVD in this extraordinary Legacy Collection. Included in the collection is the original classic, starring the renowned Boris Karloff, and four timeless sequels, featuring legendary action Lon Chaney, Jr. and others. These are the landmark films that inspired an entire genre of movies and continue to be major influences on motion pictures to this day

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The Mummy (1932).......2007-06-21

NOTE: This is only a review of the first original film.

Directed by German cinematographer Freund, who lensed Lang's "Metropolis," this eerie, dread-inducing monster movie was a triumph for all involved in the 1932 production, and remains totally absorbing today. Karloff had become a sensation with "Frankenstein" the year before, and his role as Im-Ho-Tep merely solidified the lisping English actor's fame. Bringing pathos and humanity to his portrayal of the undead cleric, Karloff is mesmerizing throughout--especially in an unforgettably horrifying flashback scene--and striking stage actress Johann holds her own as his slinky object of desire. Made by the same team as "Dracula," this brilliant horror flick has aged as well as its titular character.

A great collection.......2007-04-30

I love these old Universal Classic Horror movies, Frankenstein being my number one pick, followed by The Mummy and Creature from the Black Lagoon, but I love them all. The Mummy is a favorite because he was featured in so many movies, some great B-movie material. The Mummy's Hand was a great sequel and probably the most fun. I dont see how anyone can think it was bad. But again I saw that before I did the original mummy when I was six years old. Great stuff people, you will enjoy it.

Not a bad collection.......2007-03-12

This collection of the Legacy Collection "The Mummy" isn't all that bad, but, not all the great either. However, the classics are all here and truly very well package. If you choose to get this set of the Legacy, get it for the "The Mummy" it self. TV channels such as AMC and TMC rarely play it (even when Halloween is around)..so, just get it for that alone all the other Mummy movies are somewhat very good and im a happy with this great collection of movies.

THE FIRST IS STILL THE BEST! KARLOFF IS KING! PIERCE IS THE MASTER.......2007-02-22

The Mummy legacy is a mixed bag. It has the original Karloff classic and some very inferior quasi-sequels. The amount of effort and creativity Jack Pierce used to create the Mummy make up which is only seen for a few seconds is amazing! The best looking Mummy ever! as all of Master Pierce's creations! Even though the other four Mummy movies can be reviewed as silly,I still love them all!

Old original Mummy movies..................2007-01-23

Some horror from the past, great to relive some of the old movies from yester-year, Boris Karloff was great back in the day. Another great flick from the past.

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The nadir of Corman's shining collection
A wonderful horror anthology
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Tales of tepid terror
One of the Creepy Corman Classics

Tales of Terror
Starring: Vincent Price , Maggie Pierce , Leona Gage , Edmund Cobb , and Peter Lorre
Director: Roger Corman
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When you've got Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone, and Peter Lorre all in the same movie, how can you go wrong? Tales of Terror is a trio of Edgar Allen Poe stories, starring three of horror's greats and produced and directed by the immortal Roger Corman. The first story, "Morella," involves a girl (Debra Paget) who returns to her isolated, spooky family home to see her estranged father (Price) for the first time in 26 years. He's let the housekeeping slide a bit--cobwebs abound and, oh, yes, his dead wife is still upstairs. Peter Lorre joins the fun for "The Black Cat," a piece with comic flavor that allows Price to show his rarely seen silly side, and then it's Basil Rathbone's turn to be creepy in "The Case of M. Valdemar," the tale of a mesmerist who decides to experiment with the unknown (bad idea). The movie is well paced, and makes good use of comedy without undercutting its chills. It's a rare treat to see this many masters of the genre working together and so clearly enjoying themselves. Don't miss it. --Ali Davis

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The nadir of Corman's shining collection .......2006-09-11

Peter Lorre's ,"The Black Cat",is charmingly done.Yet,the other two are stinkers.I'm a Corman fan,but this was boring and silly to watch.I think they had a good idea ,bringing the trilogy it to the big screen.But,this version and interpretation of Poe's masterpieces didn't translate well at all.So ,beware of the dog!

A wonderful horror anthology.......2004-02-05

Vincent Price leads an all-star cast in this horror film. Price appears in all three segments. In the first, he plays a man named "Locke" who blames the death of his wife on his daughter who's just came back after 26 years. This is great, verbal horror sort of like a throwback to "Night Gallery" or other dramatic anthology shows, where the horror is in the character's personality and not in the graphics. only the final minutes does the story turn into what AIP movie goers expect. The second story, as has been voted by mostly all on here, is the stand-out. Peter Lorre and Joyce Jameson team up with Vincent in a re-telling of "Cask of Amontillado" but re-titled "The Black Cat". If you've heard or read the story, you pretty much know what's going to happen...the wine tasting scene is hilarious. The final segment offers Basil Rathbone and Vincent although Rathbone has the most action as Price's character, Valdemar, is bed-ridden. Rathbone plays an evil mesmerist who mentally tortures Valdemar's wife and keeps Valdemar in suspended animation you could say in an effort to kill him and run off with the wife! The segment ends with a memorable scene that isn't really sick...but it's not for the squeamish, either! It's one of Rathbone's finest roles, aside from Sherlock Holmes and the hilarious nut-case character in "Comedy of Terrors". This film came along in 1962. At 85 minutes in length, it's short for a feature-length film...but the material and the first-rate acting by everyone make it seem even SHORTER!!

GARBAGE.......2003-10-10

Don't waste your time or money with this DVD. The best part of the DVD is probably the Trailers and most of those are Garbage also. My DVD came loose in the package and scratched, too bad it didn't do any damage to ruin the Movie. I couldn't wait until the Movie was over, I would have stopped it earlier, but wanted to see if any damage was done. You'll be counting the minutes and seconds after watching the first half or even earlier. The last story was stupid and horrible and should have been left off. Don't waste your money, spend it on the cheap $5-6 horror DVD's, because at least those can be somewhat entertaining.

Tales of tepid terror.......2002-11-03

What happens when you take great actors (Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone), a great writer (Richard Matheson), great source material (E.A. Poe) and a passable director (Roger Corman) and have them make a movie? Nothing very good, as it turns out.

This movie is actually three short movies linked by Price's narration. The first story deals with a young woman who returns to the home of her father, a recluse tormented by the death of his wife; how she died is not really clear, but she is nonetheless intent on revenge. The second story - the best of the three - is a take-off on the Cask of Amontillado with Lorre as a murderous drunk. The final story has Rathbone as a mesmerist who traps Price in a state between life and death.

All three stories have potential, the first and last for horror, and the middle one for humor. Unfortunately, none of the stories are executed well, a fault that seems to lie primarily with Corman. For fans of the Poe movies of the sixties (directed primarily by Corman), this might be worth watching, but for horror fans, it is best to look elsewhere.

One of the Creepy Corman Classics.......2002-10-30

Directed by the venerable king of quality low-budget filmmaking, Roger Corman, and scripted by the prolific and popular SF and horror writer Richard Matheson, TALES OF TERROR is comprised of three vignettes based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe. The incomparable Vincent Price stars in all three, with Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone each co-starring (separately, alas) in one of the others. Any knowledgeable horror fans should be nearly euphoric after reading the credentials behind this flick--and they won't be disappointed!

The first story is based on Poe's "Morella," but Corman and Matheson take great liberties to make the tale darker and scarier than the original. Unfortunately, the altered plot and its resolution (?) are a bit hard to follow, and it is therefore the weaker of the three plays.

The second--and best!--vignette, "The Black Cat" is actually a composite of Poe's story of the same name and his "The Cask of Amontillado." Peter Lorre hilariously hams it up as the cuckolded Montresor Herringbone, and Vincent Price is also a riot as Herringbone's nemesis, Fortunato. In spite of the humor, however, there are still plenty of chills when Lorre builds a wall around his "problems."

The final vignette, based on Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," features the wonderful Basil Rathbone as the hypnotist who uses his powers to put the titular character, Valdemar (portrayed by Price), in a sort of limbo between life and death. Again, Corman and Matheson have taken liberties with the original story (e.g., making the hypnotist malevolent and self-serving), but this time it's to great effect, as Rathbone makes a delightfully devilish villain. The make-up job on Price in the final scene is pretty creepy, too, in spite of the film's low-budget effects. Good old-fashioned frights in this one.

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"B" Movie Fun!.......2005-11-15

After the initial masterpiece of the original 1932 "A" film, "The Mummy," Universal would make a franchise of the character and it would become a "B" staple during the 1940's for people looking to escape the harsh news of the war and get lost in a fun story on a Saturday afternoon. It was also a chance to put your arm around your girl, as you knew there would be a few thrills that would give you the excuse you needed.

These two later entries from the 1940's are both a lot of fun, and both have Lon Chaney Jr. as the tortured Kharis, forever attempting to reunite with his forbidden love, Ananka. "The Mummy's Ghost" was excellent "B" film entertainment and had John Carradine as Yousef Bay. George Zucco was back as Andoheb, even though he was supposedly killed off in the previous film. Ramsay Ames is the frightened Amina/Ananka in this one and Robert Lowery is her bewildered boyfriend. Chaney elicits sympathy through the bandages somehow as he chases after the screaming Amina, who begins to transform into his love Ananka as the story progresses. The great "B" sets of Universal and the transformation of Ramsay Ames' character Amina into Ananka are highlights of a good entry in the series.

Lon Chaney would portray Kharis in the final film of the series also, and this time the stunning Virginia Christine would be his most sought after prize. "The Mummy's Curse" was set in the swamps as a group of workers developing the area become frightened when they uncover the resting place of Kharis. The foggy swamps provide an appropriately creepy mood for this good "B" entry. Betty Walsh is good as Kay Harding and Peter Coe is Dr. Ilzor Zanard, hiding Kharis in the ruins of a monastery. It is best not to question why or how there is such a place on a hill overlooking the swamps of the bayou or how the coffin of Kharis came to be there. These "B" Universal entries were meant to be fun entertainment and nothing more. This one succeeds in that capacity with the foggy atmosphere of the swamps and the gorgeous Virginia Christine. The scene where she rises from the swamps, awoken by the sunlight and covered in mud, gives this one a big lift.

This is old-fashioned fun in every sense of the word. So grab the popcorn and the kids and let your imagination run wild for an hour or two. It's a lot of fun!

THE FINAL TWO MUMMY MOVIES!.......2004-11-23

The Mummy's Ghost is the 3rd Mummy sequel and the second starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the Mummy. The events in this movie take place just a couple of years or so after the events in the Mummy's Tomb, where we saw Kharis go up in flames at the Steve Banning house.

High Priest Andoheb (george Zucco) is shown STILL alive. Old and frail he sends yet another young priest of Arkan (changed from Karnak for some reason) to America to recover Kharis and the body of Ananka and return them to Egypt. This time the priest Yousef Bey, is played by John Carradine.

Meanwhile, back in Mapleton, MA the Mummy is shown walking again...with NO explanation as to how he escaped the fire or what was done with his body after the fire. Just another one of those fun Universal plot inconsistencies...

At Any rate a Professor Norman recreates the Tana leave experiment sending Kharis on his merry way to commit murder and mayhem. Bey reaches the museum with Kharis but when he goes to take Anankas body she simply disinegrates into a heap of dust and bandages, sending Kharis into a destructive rage, killing a security guard.

Bey guesses that Anankas spirit has been reincarnated into a new body which they soon discover is that of Amini Mansouri played by 40's scream Queen Ramsay Ames. The remainder of the film deals with Bey and Kharis looking to capture Ames and the local sherrif and townsfolk looking to stop the mummy.

Chaney has much more to do in this film than in the previous one. He gets to really go on a rampage a couple of times and show some genuine emotion.

Carradine is fun as Yousef Bey even if he doesn't look remotely Egyptian. Ames is pretty standard as the damsel in distress and basically spends the movie screaming and fainting. Her fiancee Tom, played by Robert lowery, is the usual dim-witted, wooden romantic lead in the great tradition of David Manners.

I liked The Mummy's Ghost. It was more action packed than the two previous entries and Chaney really made the mummy terrifying.

In the Mummy's Curse we are treated to an odd bit of Universal continuity craziness...in previous movie the mummy disappeared under the swampy waters in Mapleton, MA..only to reappear in the swamps of Louisiana!!! Wow! what a trip!

Well we have a new high priest of Arkam who attempts to find the bodies of Kharis and the reincarnated Ananka and return them to Egypt. Peter Coe plays the high priest Zandaab aided by his servant Ragheb.

Oddly enough they find a very gothic looking and abandoned monastery atop a hill in the Bayou!!! They revive Kharis (played again by Chaney Jr.) and send him out to find Ananka.

This movie actually has one of the more chilling scenes in any mUmmy movie since the original, when the reincarnated Ananka digs here way out of the dirt and grime of the swamp. She staggers along covered in muck not unlike a zombie out of Night of the Living Dead. Quite scary given the time period.

She has no desire to go back and constantly runs from Kharis who kills anyone in his way including a female tavern owner.

I think Curse may have been the best of the Chaney Jr. Mummy offerings. Some genuinely scary moments. Only problem was that this was really the weakest supporting cast with no realy big name stars like Zucco or Carradine in supporting roles.

I'm a MUMMY!.......2004-06-17

Man, the reviewer a couple below hits the nail on the head when he asks why anyone would be embarrassed for enjoying these classic films.

These and the other Universal Calssic Monsters set the bar for quality in the genre and had a huge impact worldwide.

Consider Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, directed by the amazing James Whale. Who would argue that these are not just excellent horror films, but simply excellent films. Creature from the Black Lagoon. Again, it may be dated somewhat, but what movies from this era aren't? It still delivers tension and creeps.

The Mummy series of Universal films may be my favorite of the lot. This particular DVD reissue is an essential edition to any horror or classic film afficionado's collection and is a great introduction for the next generation as well.

Wonderful old Classics!.......2004-06-16

When I read some of these reviews where the writer apologizes, as if greatly embarassed, about how much he/she secretly enjoys the mummy or wolf man or Frankenstein movies, I want to scream louder than Evelyn Ankers. Why apologize? Why act embarassed? There's nothing to cringe about when you settle in and watch a movie that brings you great enjoyment. I've watched my collection of Universal shockers--especially"The Mummy's Curse," "The Mummy's Ghost," repeatedly for years and I never tire of them. On DVD, they're even better. "The Mummy's Ghost" haunts many of its first-time viewers with the extraordinary beauty of heroine Ramsey Ames and her horrific ending in the quicksand. Virginia Christine creates one of the most stunning sequences in fantasy films when she emerges from the quicksand as the ancient Princess Ananka--all accompanied by a powerful musical score and expressionistic shots of a racing sun and clouds. All of these beautifully made old black and white chillers from Universals are part of my permanent film library. Think of it like this: Universal fright movies made tons of money for the studios when they were released. Millions of customers lined up at the box offices around the world to thrill to these black and white masterpieces. I've seen old newspaper photographs of armies of fans in New York waiting in line to see "Night Monster," "The Mummy's Ghost," etc. These movies were produced by masters on modest budgets. Just compare the lush black and white photograpy in "Mummy's Ghost" and "Night Monster" with that of "Citizen Kane," "Since You Went Away," etc. Musical scoring for all these Universal movies were fabulous. Snippets from the Charles Previn/Frank Skinner scores from "Son of Frankenstein" and "The Wolf Man" were brilliantly interwoven with the Mummy movies. The Universal Monster collection is justly famed for its expert, smooth,productions and talented casts. So, when you feel the urge to apologize, shrink or confess that you're a fan of these timeless gems, then don't utter your apologies around these parts. Or you'll have Kharis, Larry Talbot and Frankie boy coming after you!

Still a Fave of Mine.......2004-02-11

The Mummy movies have been the most disparaged of Universal's classic monster series, and I guess that's pretty understandable. There's almost no plot variation from one film to the next. You get a quivering George Zucco handing off his title of Head Priest to the next adept in line (Turhan Bey/John Carradine/Peter Coe), you get the obligatory flashback, you get the Tana leaves, you get the reincarnated Princess...In other words, why come up with an original idea when the same formula that made us money before, and the time before that can make us money yet again (an idea that seems even more prevalent in the Hollywood of today)? Chaney allegedly hated the Mummy role, and that is also understandable. Not much room for characterization here. I consider myself a Chaney fan, but anybody with a hefty build and a lumbering, shuffling gait could have slipped on the Mummy mask and basically done the same job. And it has become something of a cliche' about how laughably slow-moving the Mummy is but it's true- a geriatric Tortoise on medication could probably peregrinate more quickly and lethally than Kharis does here. The relative ease with which Kharis dispatches his victims, given his arthritic pace, strains the limits of credulity. Yes, the zombies in a movie like "Night of the Living Dead" didn't move much faster, but then there were a lot more of them, and a convincing sense of menace was conveyed. Even as a kid, the realization that I could outwalk Kharis even on a bad day rendered him far, far less frightening than the other monsters who populated Universal movies (Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula, etc.). And yet, having said all this...I still love these Mummy movies. There's something truly creepy about the concept of a withered Mummy being revived after centuries in an Egyptian tomb, and a certain poignancy about a thwarted, doomed love enduring on through the centuries. It is this eerie duality, perhaps, that lifts these films above their unintentionally comic elements, their plodding cookie-cutter storylines, and their often offensively stereotypical characters into something that, at its best, is memorable and entertaining and, at its worst, is at least still more fun to watch than much of what passes for horror these days. Certain moments from these films have haunted me through the years- the final scene with Lon Chaney and Ramsay Ames in "Ghost" and much of "The Mummy's Curse." Indeed, "Mummy's Curse" is probably my favorite of the whole series, an opinion that certainly puts me at odds with most everyone else reviewing these films. I saw the scene where Virginia Christine emerges from her grave in a Louisiana swamp as a little kid, and it never left me. To me, this is one of the most haunting images that ever came out of a Universal film, laugh if you will. Equally effective is the final image of Christine in her sarcophagus, returned once again to her mummified state and forever denied a chance at a normal human life; an image that is then almost immediately negated by the empty-headed, happy-go-lucky bantering of the other characters. There are compelling little touches in this movie that the others lack. There's a scene where Kharis (Chaney's Mummy) is strangling the character of Tante Berthe and she pounds on his chest and shoulders, raising clouds of dust. A small detail, perhaps, but only on a number of such small details can a convincing suspension of disbelief be created and sustained. Unfortunately, the banality of the rest of the picture mitigates
what's truly chilling about it. With the exception of Christine and Martin Kosleck, a wonderful character actor from the 1940's, the other actors fail to breath much life into their bland, cardboard characters. And talk about racial stereotypes! If you've ever wondered why blacks are still so enraged over the way they were portrayed in the old movies, check out Napoleon Simpson in the role of "Goobie" here. I loved his line, "The Mummy's on the loose and he's dancin' with the devil" (repeated more than once) but one line, even if it were written by Tolstoy, cannot redeem such a painfully embarrassing character. This is probably the most ambivalent review I've ever written. There's a lot here that's ridiculous, and laughable, and even downright boring. And yet, I love these movies and consider them to be valuable additions to my collection. How much of that reverence is objectively arrived at and how much of it is colored by my early childhood memories? I'm probably not in a position to say, but you've been warned. You'll probably either love these movies, for all their flaws, or you'll hate them. I can't imagine there would be a middle ground.

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