Undead Fun
Egypt. 1955. A cult worshipping a pair of mummies. A treasure. A sexy brunette willing to do anything to get that wealth. A medallion showing where the loot is buried. A murdered archaeologist.
An Agatha Christie novel? No, it's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.
Richard Deacon (Fred Rutherford in Leave it to Beaver) plays Semu, cult leader and Professor of Egyptology. Marie Windsor plays his rival, Madame Rontru. Both of them have no problem with ordering their devoted henchmen to murder people, Rontru to get the treasure, Semu to protect it.
Abbott and Costello play two bumblers with a knack for getting involved in trouble generated by the Semu/Rontru rivalry. Coming into possession of the medallion showing the treasure's location, they try to sell it at a pawn shop, only to find it's either cursed or else it's worth thousands of dollars. Madame Rontru is willing to give them five grand for it, but after it ends up in Costello's stomach Rontru and Semu, joining forces temporarily, decide to follow what they've been able to discern from an x-ray of Costello's stomach. Abbott and Costello go along with them, ending up inside an ancient structure (Semu's locus for his cult) where the male mummy lies in his sarcophagus. This creature is "alive." Costello and Abbott encounter it several times, and finally the thing terrorizes everyone until it's destroyed by dynamite, the explosion knocking aside the slab covering the female mummy and the fabulous treasure. Abbott and Costello convince Semu and Rontru to make up and go into business together, making Semu's lair into a nightclub.
That Rontru and Semu were, for a while, considering having Costello sliced open to retrieve the medallion, the film's main pair reveal themselves to be remarkably forgiving fellows.
Vic Neptune
Egypt. 1955. A cult worshipping a pair of mummies. A treasure. A sexy brunette willing to do anything to get that wealth. A medallion showing where the loot is buried. A murdered archaeologist.
An Agatha Christie novel? No, it's Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy.
Richard Deacon (Fred Rutherford in Leave it to Beaver) plays Semu, cult leader and Professor of Egyptology. Marie Windsor plays his rival, Madame Rontru. Both of them have no problem with ordering their devoted henchmen to murder people, Rontru to get the treasure, Semu to protect it.
Abbott and Costello play two bumblers with a knack for getting involved in trouble generated by the Semu/Rontru rivalry. Coming into possession of the medallion showing the treasure's location, they try to sell it at a pawn shop, only to find it's either cursed or else it's worth thousands of dollars. Madame Rontru is willing to give them five grand for it, but after it ends up in Costello's stomach Rontru and Semu, joining forces temporarily, decide to follow what they've been able to discern from an x-ray of Costello's stomach. Abbott and Costello go along with them, ending up inside an ancient structure (Semu's locus for his cult) where the male mummy lies in his sarcophagus. This creature is "alive." Costello and Abbott encounter it several times, and finally the thing terrorizes everyone until it's destroyed by dynamite, the explosion knocking aside the slab covering the female mummy and the fabulous treasure. Abbott and Costello convince Semu and Rontru to make up and go into business together, making Semu's lair into a nightclub.
That Rontru and Semu were, for a while, considering having Costello sliced open to retrieve the medallion, the film's main pair reveal themselves to be remarkably forgiving fellows.
Vic Neptune
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