7/27/2007
Tomorrow night, we jump into the final installment of the Kharis the Mummy saga- “the Mummy’s Curse.” So, as I promised, let’s get to more of the information that viewer Dan Kelley generously provided to us regarding these Mummy flicks!
He points out that the string of Kharis movies are full of lapses in continuity- we mentioned last week that the “Babe” character’s last name changed between “the Mummy’s Hand” and “the Mummy’s Tomb”…additionally, high priest George Zucco went from a younger balding man to an old man with a full head of white hair in those same flicks, and in “the Mummy’s Ghost” as well (“Ghost” is the one Mummy flick that Universal didn’t include in our schedule- which is a shame, since the high priest sent to retrieve Kharis from America, as I’ve mentioned before, is an old favorite of mine- John Carradine!) At the end of “Mummy’s Ghost”-the Annanka re-incarnation sinks into a swamp in Massachusetts- but rises out of a swamp in Louisiana in tomorrow night’s Sven feature “the Mummy’s Curse!”
Dan also thinks that someone in Universal’s marketing department must have come up with the films’ titles first, since the plots don’t necessarily make sense with the titles- “Mummy’s Hand” takes place mostly in Egypt- and a lot of it in the Mummy’s tomb. But- “the Mummy’s Tomb” isn’t near his tomb at all- it all takes place in America, where the Mummy is out to wipe out the members of the expedition that violated Annanka’s tomb in the previous film. “The Mummy’s Ghost” finds Annanka’s reincarnation alive in Mapleton, Mass. Finally; “the Mummy’s Curse” has both Kharis and re-incarnated Annanka slopping through the bayous of Louisiana, where the superstitious locals claim that the Mummy’s ghost haunts the swamps. So- Dan suggests that, logically, according to the plots- actually “Hand” should be titled “Tomb”- “Tomb” should be “Curse”- “Ghost” should be “Hand”- and “Curse” should be “Ghost!”
One additional bit of trivia Dan provided about the missing-from-the-Sven-schedule “Mummy’s Ghost”- Lon Chaney Jr. suffered some serious cuts when he punched out an actual plate glass door instead of the prop door rigged to break on contact! (I’ll bet all those bandages he was wrapped in came in handy then…)
Again, thanks to Dan Kelley for these morsels of Mummy trivia- and come back tomorrow for the info on our Sven program-which will include some classic Sven moments!
He points out that the string of Kharis movies are full of lapses in continuity- we mentioned last week that the “Babe” character’s last name changed between “the Mummy’s Hand” and “the Mummy’s Tomb”…additionally, high priest George Zucco went from a younger balding man to an old man with a full head of white hair in those same flicks, and in “the Mummy’s Ghost” as well (“Ghost” is the one Mummy flick that Universal didn’t include in our schedule- which is a shame, since the high priest sent to retrieve Kharis from America, as I’ve mentioned before, is an old favorite of mine- John Carradine!) At the end of “Mummy’s Ghost”-the Annanka re-incarnation sinks into a swamp in Massachusetts- but rises out of a swamp in Louisiana in tomorrow night’s Sven feature “the Mummy’s Curse!”
Dan also thinks that someone in Universal’s marketing department must have come up with the films’ titles first, since the plots don’t necessarily make sense with the titles- “Mummy’s Hand” takes place mostly in Egypt- and a lot of it in the Mummy’s tomb. But- “the Mummy’s Tomb” isn’t near his tomb at all- it all takes place in America, where the Mummy is out to wipe out the members of the expedition that violated Annanka’s tomb in the previous film. “The Mummy’s Ghost” finds Annanka’s reincarnation alive in Mapleton, Mass. Finally; “the Mummy’s Curse” has both Kharis and re-incarnated Annanka slopping through the bayous of Louisiana, where the superstitious locals claim that the Mummy’s ghost haunts the swamps. So- Dan suggests that, logically, according to the plots- actually “Hand” should be titled “Tomb”- “Tomb” should be “Curse”- “Ghost” should be “Hand”- and “Curse” should be “Ghost!”
One additional bit of trivia Dan provided about the missing-from-the-Sven-schedule “Mummy’s Ghost”- Lon Chaney Jr. suffered some serious cuts when he punched out an actual plate glass door instead of the prop door rigged to break on contact! (I’ll bet all those bandages he was wrapped in came in handy then…)
Again, thanks to Dan Kelley for these morsels of Mummy trivia- and come back tomorrow for the info on our Sven program-which will include some classic Sven moments!
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