Plenty o’Sven, and a Mummy Again…
Reading that headline, it seems like I’m Irish (O’Sven?)
But it just means that, in tonight’s program, you are guaranteed plenty of Svengoolie bits, along with the final installment of Mummymania running wild- “the Mummy’s Curse!”(I’ve mentioned before-there was one Mummy film that came between last week’s and this week’s- the 1944 flick “The Mummy’s Ghost” featuring John Carradine - but Universal did not provide us with that one…)
In that previous film, the living mummy Kharis and his Princess Ananka (or, her latest reincarnation) met their demise sinking into the Massachusetts swamps- which is where this picture opens-except the swamp is now in Louisiana!(Don’t ask.) There’s excavating going on, with businessmen intent on draining the swamp, while an archeologist tries to halt the proceedings so he can recover the mummy for future study.
The archeologist is unaware that his assistant is actually one of those high priest guys who helps revive the Mummy with the usual tanna leaf tea- and, along the way- the Princess arises from the bayou mud, with no recollection of who she is!
Soon, the Mummy is back on his rampage of revenge, and out to reclaim his beloved princess! Lon Chaney Jr. again appears in the mummy make-up he despised so much, that they had to create a quicker and easier mask to speed things up and please Big Junior.
It’s typical mummy mayhem of the type seen in these sequels-and, longtime TV viewers will be surprised by whom the woman playing the amnesiac princess really is ( a commercial spokeswoman of yesteryear-we’ll explain on the show…)And- since it’s a shorter movie- we’ve made up the time with a lot of Sven bits from the past to entertain you.
There’s some good news and some bad news here- first, for the people who are again complaining that we’re showing too many mummy movies in a row- this is the last one. The bad news, for those who enjoy the vintage Mummy flicks- is that this has been our final run of them-Universal will now reclaim them, and they’ll end up exclusively on cable. We will still get another run of “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy” though…
And, final reminders- the time changes tonight (turn your clocks FORWARD!!!) and, due to that- the Me-TV Sven airing begins an hour earlier than normal- at midnight, instead of the usual 1 am. It will be back at the usual time next week, when we won’t be struggling with how to reset the time on every device in our homes… # # #
But it just means that, in tonight’s program, you are guaranteed plenty of Svengoolie bits, along with the final installment of Mummymania running wild- “the Mummy’s Curse!”(I’ve mentioned before-there was one Mummy film that came between last week’s and this week’s- the 1944 flick “The Mummy’s Ghost” featuring John Carradine - but Universal did not provide us with that one…)
In that previous film, the living mummy Kharis and his Princess Ananka (or, her latest reincarnation) met their demise sinking into the Massachusetts swamps- which is where this picture opens-except the swamp is now in Louisiana!(Don’t ask.) There’s excavating going on, with businessmen intent on draining the swamp, while an archeologist tries to halt the proceedings so he can recover the mummy for future study.
The archeologist is unaware that his assistant is actually one of those high priest guys who helps revive the Mummy with the usual tanna leaf tea- and, along the way- the Princess arises from the bayou mud, with no recollection of who she is!
Soon, the Mummy is back on his rampage of revenge, and out to reclaim his beloved princess! Lon Chaney Jr. again appears in the mummy make-up he despised so much, that they had to create a quicker and easier mask to speed things up and please Big Junior.
It’s typical mummy mayhem of the type seen in these sequels-and, longtime TV viewers will be surprised by whom the woman playing the amnesiac princess really is ( a commercial spokeswoman of yesteryear-we’ll explain on the show…)And- since it’s a shorter movie- we’ve made up the time with a lot of Sven bits from the past to entertain you.
There’s some good news and some bad news here- first, for the people who are again complaining that we’re showing too many mummy movies in a row- this is the last one. The bad news, for those who enjoy the vintage Mummy flicks- is that this has been our final run of them-Universal will now reclaim them, and they’ll end up exclusively on cable. We will still get another run of “Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy” though…
And, final reminders- the time changes tonight (turn your clocks FORWARD!!!) and, due to that- the Me-TV Sven airing begins an hour earlier than normal- at midnight, instead of the usual 1 am. It will be back at the usual time next week, when we won’t be struggling with how to reset the time on every device in our homes… # # #
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