The Mummy's Curse

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The Mummy's Curse
Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Produced by Oliver Drake
Ben Pivar
Written by Leon Abrams
Dwight V. Babcock
Starring Lon Chaney Jr.
Peter Coe
Virginia Christine
Music by William Lava
Paul Sawtell
Cinematography Virgil Miller
Editing by Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) Flag of the United States December 22, 1944
Running time 62 min
Language English
Preceded by The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Followed by Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
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The Mummy's Curse is the 1944 horror film follow-up to The Mummy's Ghost which was also released in 1944. This film marks Lon Chaney Jr.'s final appearance as Kharis, the Egyptian mummy. Many critics and fans believe the final installment to be the weakest. Certainly it is the most inconsistent, since Kharis was last seen in New England, and here he is dug up in Louisiana. The Universal Mummy series also boasts of a parallel-earth kind of timeline. The Mummy's Hand was made and set in 1940; The Mummy's Tomb takes place 30 years later; The Mummy's Ghost about five years after that, and The Mummy's Curse twenty-five years after "Ghost." That means if the timeline is taken seriously, this film is set around the year 2000.

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This installment in the series takes place in Louisiana Cajun country and concerns Princess Ananka, the ancient Egyptian princess for whom Kharis bore a forbidden love. Ananka had previously been reincarnated in The Mummy's Ghost only to die in the swamps. In this film, her body is dug up by land developers and she comes back to life. Kharis terrorizes the local country in his search for her. Interestingly enough, one of the principal leads, Dennis Moore, better known for his western roles and for appearing in the last US movie serial (Blazing the Overland Trail, Columbia, 1956), is not even listed in some of the movie posters for the film.

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The Mummy franchise
Original pentalogy
The Mummy (1932) • Hand (1940) • Tomb (1942) • Ghost (1944) • Curse (1944)
Hammer tetralogy
The Mummy (1959) • Curse (1964) • Shroud (1967) • Blood (1971) 
Remake trilogy
The Mummy (1999) • Returns (2001) • Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Spin-off prequels
Characters
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Universal Horror film series
Dracula
Frankenstein's Monster
The Wolf Man
alone and with other monsters
London werewolves
Mummies
The Mummy (1932) · The Mummy's Hand (1940) · The Mummy's Tomb (1942) · The Mummy's Ghost (1944) · The Mummy's Curse (1944) · Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
The Invisible Man
The Phantom of the Opera
Edgar Allan Poe
Inner Sanctum Mysteries
Calling Dr. Death (1943) · Weird Woman (1944) · Dead Man's Eyes (1944) · Strange Confession (1945) · The Frozen Ghost (1945) · Pillow of Death (1945)
The Ape Woman
Captive Wild Woman (1943) · Jungle Woman (1944) · The Jungle Captive (1945)
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
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