calvinnme John Carradine plays an Egyptian priest who is ordered by George Zucco to go to America and bring back the mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney, Jr.). Meanwhile, in New England, Robert Lowery is in love with Ramsay Ames, who happens to be of Egyptian descent. In fact, she is really the reincarnation of the Princess Ananka, whom Kharis had/has/always will have the hots for. Lowery's professor, played by Frank Reicher, manages to decipher some hieroglyphics, which brings us to a major hiccup in the plot points. You see, the big breakthrough for Reicher comes when he translates the number "nine." So apparently he can translate hieroglyphics, but not Egyptian numerals. We quickly move to major idiotic point number 2. While Reicher is brewing 9 tana leaves, the mummy just happens to walk out of the woods nearby. Where has he been hiding since the last film? This leads to major idiotic point number 3. The tana leaves are supposed to sustain Kharis, so what does he do? He chokes the stuffing out of Reicher and shuffles off without taking a sip.The ending is nonsensical, especially since, if memory serves, Ananka awakens in the next film in Louisiana.There are so many other goofy plot points that they are too numerous to mention, but here are a few. Ames' hair starts developing white streaks; people notice, but nobody mentions it to her. One of the investigators declares "If those aren't mummy footprints, I'll eat 'em". Where did such a strange expression come from?The supporting cast is good, headed by Barton MacLane as a detective. For film buffs, silent leading lady Claire Whitney has a substantial part as Reicher's wife. The producers also threw a bone to silent film western star William Desmond by having him appear in one scene, with no dialogue.

snicewanger The Mummy's Ghost is the third in the "Kharis" the Mummy series and Griffin Jay's script is more or less a rehash of the same old lady in distress plot line of the first two with a twist ending that is a grabber.Director Reggie LeBorg was Chaney's buddy and knew Lon would be pretty well crooked when the lunch break was over, particularly when Lon was in his mummy makeup. Jack Pierce got very tired of Lon's constant gripping and moaning about it. There is a story that LeBorg told about the scene where Kharis strangles Prof Norman. Frank Reicher was one of Hollywood's most respected character actors. When the scene started rolling, Chaney went charging in,grabbed Reicher by the throat and pushed him into the wall. Chaney had been hitting the bottle and was pumped. When Chaney broke off, Reicher screamed "He almost killed me!" and proceeded to verbally ream Chaney a new one, calling him unprofessional and stupid. Chaney just sat there in his mummy makeup muttering an apology and shivering in shame. Chaney's glass breaking scene when Ananka's mummy dissolves is yet another legend. Again he fortified himself with some Jack Daniels and did the whole scene himself without a stuntman. He cut his chin under his mask on a shard of glass, you can see the blood at the end of the scene.Acquanetta had been originally cast in the Amina/Ananka role but she injured herself on the first day of shooting. Ben Pivar claimed, however, that LeBorg had demanded that she be replaced during rehearsals because of her poor acting. Anyway, the beautiful Ramsay Ames was thrown into the part with just a few days notice, which may account for her confused look.in most of her scenes. Ramsay had been hired to appear in musicals because of her singing and dancing talent but Universal kept casting her in horror and mystery films. Robert Lowery was way too old to play a college student and wasn't happy about being cast in the movie. He seemed to have a "lets get this thing over with attitude" throughout the film.The plot holes and lack of continuity in the Mummy series are well known and have been pointed out in many knowledgeable sources. Kharis is a killing machine and not a sympathetic creature as some of the other Universal monsters are. His tendency to kill senior citizens is yet another reason not to root for him. Watching The Mummy's Ghost isn't the worst way to spend an hour and is essential if your are following the series.

Mike_Noga Here we have the 3rd of 4 movies in Universal's Mummy series. You don't really need to describe the plot because I think it is pretty much the same in every one of these Mummy films. Mummy meets girl. Mummy and girl fall in love, violating the laws of Amon-Ra in the process. Mummy and girl are cursed and buried for thousands of years. Mummy is woken up by rude explorers. Mummy kills explorers. Mummy tries to reunite with girl, who is now a pile of moldy rags.MUMMY'S GHOST takes place in poor, little Mapleton Massachusetts. Kharis has been presumably just wandering around the countryside like a dirty hippie since the end of the last mummy movie. When a professor brew up some nice Tana leave tea Kharis comes running (in a manner of speaking) like a hungry hound at chow time, kills the Prof. and guzzles down the tana tea. At the same time, yet another high priest is skulking about trying to get Kharis and Ananka, who is cooling her moldy heels in the local museum, back to Egypt. But you know how it goes with mummies. One thing leads to another and the high priest realizes that Ananka's soul resides in the body (meeOW) of a local girl, Amina Mansouri. He starts out trying to kill Mansouri in order to free Ananka's soul so it can return to her old mummy body (EWW!) but decides to keep her for himself and nuts to Kharis and the laws of Amon-Ra. Well sir, Kharis doesn't much cotton to this idea and he throws the high priest out a window and over a cliff. He then grabs Mansouri and carries her into one of Massachusetts many, many swamps where he and the rapidly aging Mansouri/Ananka sink into quicksand.Lon Chaney does a great job as Kharis. He actually manages to convey some emotion through the make-up, and there are a few times when the mummy is portrayed as a relentless, unstoppable juggernaut of destruction. There is a tiny bit of humor and more suspense than I was expecting . I found the Mummy's Ghost especially interesting in the way the townspeople were so accepting of the fact that a mummy was loose in their town. They gathered together, rather calmly to discuss how they were going to deal with it. I guess it just shows the scrappy attitude of people in that day when they can just comfortably roll up their sleeves and go out on a mummy hunt, as if they were going out to trap gophers . Mapleton is one Bad a$$ town.There is nothing classic about this movie, it was made quickly and cheaply and it shows. But it gives you what all b movies should: an hour or so of decent, escapist entertainment.

Michael_Elliott Mummy's Ghost, The (1944) ** 1/2 (out of 4) A high priest (John Carradine) travels from Egypt to America to locate the bodies of Kharis (Lon Chaney, Jr.) and Princess Ananka. Once in America the priest seems to think that the princess has had her spirit lifted into another body so Kharis must get to her and kill anyone who stands in his way.THE MUMMY'S GHOST is perhaps the weakest mummy film in Universal's series, although fans of monster movies will probably still find it mildly entertaining. I think there's a lot more that could have been done with the film but it's clear that the studio wasn't interested in anything fresh or original but instead they were just trying to deliver a quick "B" picture and that's pretty much what they've done. The film manages to have a few decent ideas scattered throughout but when you really think about it, the story doesn't add much that the previous two didn't do.Once again we've got a high priest bring the mummy back to life who once again goes out looking for his long lost love. This time out I found the mummy make-up to be the least attractive and perhaps this was due to its star Chaney simply refusing to wear more. It's well-known that Chaney and make-up artist Jack Pearce weren't exactly on the best terms. Carradine is good in his brief role and it's also fun seeing George Zucco back on hand. The supporting players are also decent.The biggest problem with the film is the rather bland direction and even at 61-minutes not too much happens. I think it doesn't help that the quality is obviously a lot lower than the previous three films so the decline is right there in front of you. I think the best thing working for the picture is the climax, which ends in a way that you really don't expect it to. THE MUMMY'S GHOST isn't classic Universal but fans of the series will still want to check it out.