Today we will conclude "Monster Mash Month" with Universal Classic Monster: the Mummy. The movie in today's highlight is The Mummy's Tomb (1942) with Lon Chaney, Jr. playing the role as the wrapped fiend. A high priest travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Chaney) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian princess Ananka 30 years earlier.
The Mummy's Tomb begins with a long recap of what happened in The Mummy's Hand as told by Stephen Banning (Dick Foran), the hero of the first film now an old man. The film features many scenes from the last "mummy" film to tell the story. After the recap Banning, the man who found the Ananka tomb 30 years before, is killed in his own house in New England by the mummy after a high priest has vowed revenge on the men who entered the tomb years before. Banning's old partner, 'Babe' Hanson (Wallace Ford), is also targeted. As the Banning family is killed off one by one, the high priest (Turhan Bey) decides to take a young woman (Elyse Knox) as his bride instead of killing her. He orders the mummy to kidnap the woman. Angry villagers, led by Banning's son John (John Hubbard), hunt down the monster and again burn it to death.
So for a scary "Monster Mash Month" selection, we highly recommend Universal's 1942 film, The Mummy's Tomb. Join "Let's Talk Classic Movies" every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for more classic movie presentations and trivia.
**Trivia Question for Today: In how many 'Mummy' movies did Lon Chaney, Jr. portray the mummy, Kharis? Besides his first 'Mummy' portrayal in The Mummy's Tomb, what were the titles of the other movies?
Trivia Answer for Previous Post: The excavation scenes in The Mummy's Hand were shot on the Universal back-lot in a rocky and desert-like section of the natural hills. The name of the area was known as "Gausman's Gulch," named after Russell A. Gausman, set decorator on this film, and many other of Universal's horror films. To give the gulch a more canyon-like and wild appearance, it was augmented with artificial rock-faces and boulders.
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