The Mummy's Ghost

"Nameless! Fleshless! Deathless!"

1944 1h 0m EN

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5.6

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★5.6TMDB · 88

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An Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka's spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest's greedy desires cause him to lose control of the mummy...

“Nameless! Fleshless! Deathless!”

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Cast

Lon Chaney Jr.
Kharis
John Carradine
Yousef Bey
Robert Lowery
Tom Hervey
Ramsay Ames
Amina Mansouri
Barton MacLane
Inspector Walgreen
George Zucco
Andoheb, High Priest of Arkan
Frank Reicher
Prof. Matthew Norman
Harry Shannon
Sheriff Elwood

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Reginald Le Borg
Writers: Griffin Jay, Henry Sucher, Griffin Jay
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

RUNTIME

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Tight 60-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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82 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Mummy (Universal) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Reginald Le Borg, shot by William A. Sickner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Saul A. Goodkind shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine and Robert Lowery carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Nameless! Fleshless! Deathless!".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0037099 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Reginald Le Borg directs. William A. Sickner behind the camera. Saul A. Goodkind cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Tight 60-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
282 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "The Mummy (Universal) Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Reginald Le Borg, shot by William A. Sickner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Saul A. Goodkind shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Lon Chaney Jr. and John Carradine and Robert Lowery carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "Nameless! Fleshless! Deathless!".
8IMDB entry: tt0037099 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 88 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
10Classified under 16 themes, including "small town", "egypt", "mummy", "swamp".

The technical file

Cinematography: William A. Sickner
Editing: Saul A. Goodkind
Costume design: Vera West
Makeup / hair: Jack Pierce
Runtime: 60 min · 1h 0m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: The Mummy's Ghost (1944)

Part of

The Mummy (Universal) Collection

A Universal Production film series beginning with The Mummy in 1932 and followed by four sequels up to 1944.

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CinemaSerf2022-06-30
★ 6/10
This film belongs to a suitably maniacal John Carradine as "Yousef Bey" who has been charged by the gods to empower the mummified body of the High Priest "Kharis" (Lon Chaney Jr. but it might as well have been anyone) to reunify with the Princess Ananka who appears to have reincarnated in the guise of "Amina" (the glamorous but terribly static Ramsey Ames). Who can stop this? Well that task falls to Robert Lowery ("Tom") who has to thwart the increasingly ambitious plotting of Carradine and his embalmed enforcer. I quite enjoyed it, but it has little of merit to recommend it; the action scenes are as lumbering as Chaney doing the cha-cha; the dialogue likewise and but for Carradine's eyes and a few scenes from George Zucco as the modern day High Priest, it would fall entirely by the wayside.

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