A slight improvement over the previous sequel, "The Mummy's Curse" brought some sort of closure to Universals' "Kharis" series of Mummy pictures. It benefits from being more atmospheric and eerie, and having a brighter leading lady than usual. When in doubt, flee the monster!The story is somewhat ignorant of the end of "The Mummy's Ghost". Kharis and Ananka sank into a New England swamp at the end of that one. Now, Kharis (Lon Chaney, Jr.) has been dug up from a *New Orleans* swamp during an irrigation project. Ananka is now played by Virginia Christine (a beauty), yet houses a dual, modern personality, the alternate being somewhat confused by her predicament. The last in the line of Egyptian high priests determined to unite the two is the nefarious Ilzor Zandaab (Peter Coe). Helped by an associate named Ragheb (Martin Kosleck), he spurs Kharis to do what he does best, and to kill anybody in his way.Chaney is decent here, getting to be somewhat more expressive. Dennis Moore is the requisite studly hero, Dr. James Halsey. Kurt Katch gets to ham it up as N.O. character Cajun Joe, and Ann Codee is fun as singer / saloon owner Tante Berthe. Lovely Kay Harding is engaging as the niece / employee of ill-tempered boss Pat Walsh (Addison Richards); Richards is an absolute hoot as a born skeptic. And Coe & Kosleck are effective villains. Christine is definitely a standout.Although not in the same league as the film that began Universals' Mummy franchise, this does offer some fun, and at least concludes things reasonably well.It does go awfully heavy on the exposition / back story, though, utilizing archive footage from both "The Mummy" (1932) and "The Mummy's Hand".Seven out of 10.

At the end of the previous movie "The Mummy's Ghost" the mummy known as "Kharis" (Lon Chaney) carried the beautiful "Amina Mansouri" (Ramsay Ames) into the Louisiana swamp and while they were sinking into quicksand she had morphed into the "Princess Ananka". This movie essentially picks up where the previous movie ended with some workers for the "Southern Engineering Company" trying to drain the Louisiana swamp where Kharis and Ananka sank some 25 years earlier. While work is progressing two people from the "Scripps Museum", who go by the names of "Dr. James Halsey" (Dennis Moore) and "Dr. Ilzor Zandaab" (Peter Coe), come to see the owner of the company "Pat Walsh" (Addison Richards) to tell him that they want to dig up Kharis for their museum. Unfortunately, while they are talking the dead body of one of the workers is found near that site. Also found is a bandage which could have only come from Kharis. Not long after that Princess Ananka (now played by Virginia Christine) is also freed from her underground resting place and as she wanders in the swamp she gradually changes back into her old identity of Amina Mansouri. Naturally, Kharis wants her back and he will stop at nothing to get her. Anyway, rather than detail the rest of the movie and possibly ruin the film for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this is the 4th sequel to the original movie "The Mummy" which was filmed back in 1932. As such it follows the same standard plot which admittedly gets a bit old in subsequent re-tellings. And while there are a couple of twists thrown in which have a certain appeal the fact that this movie only lasted 62 minutes doesn't allow for any depth to the characters or the plot. That said, in my opinion this "paint-by-numbers" approach doesn't lend any quality to the movie and as a result I rate it as slightly below average.

This movie is a hackneyed, cheap, rushed dog of a production. What in heaven's name are the Mummy and his princess doing wandering around Louisiana? Ridiculous. I am sorry but the fake Cajun accents are such a mismatch with ancient Egyptian stories this is just almost a non-movie. Louisiana and Egypt are both done a disservice here.The script was shoehorned into the Louisiana locale and so is also just a total mess.But the cast is good. Zucco is fantastic in his small role. Holmes Herbert is solid in his role as the doctor, Carradine is perfect and does a good job. Virginia Christine brings off her role in a sincere, fascinating and watchable way, and gives us a new and improved take on the princess. Kay Harding is fine as the darling ingénue daughter of a tough foreman. I like to hear Ms. Harding speak with her unaffected soft voice and kind persona.Ridiculous hack ideas are behind the concept of everything that takes place in this whole film. The lumbering, sad mummy is totally out of place (no tomb, no museum, no Egypt, etc.), as he wanders around the Louisiana countryside. The unwatchable ideas just keep coming so the film becomes curiously watchable to see how bad can it get, and is saved by the effective cast.

Lon Chaney Jr. returned for the last time as Kharis the living mummy, who is unearthed(along with his beloved Princess Ananka) from their swampy grave by builders excavating the area for re-development. Once again, a high priest(played by Peter Coe) and his native assistant(played by Martin Koslek) are after them as well, and want to return them to their native Egypt, but local Scripps Museum representatives have other ideas, leading to a final climax to the "saga"... Bizarre film is set 25 years after "Ghost", placing this in the year 1995!(Or so)Huh? It still looks like the 1940's to me! Even worse, the previous two pictures were set in Mapleton Massachusetts, now they are located in Louisiana! Huh? It makes no sense, and poor continuity only makes this tired, dated and redundant film worse.