The film was released as part of the 3-disc The Mummy: The Complete Legacy Collection and the 21-disc Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection on September 2, 2014. Originally released as a single DVD on August 28, 2001, it was released three times as part of different Abbott and Costello collections, The Best of Abbott and Costello Volume Four, on October 4, 2005, on October 28, 2008, as part of Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection, and in 2015 in the Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters Collection. This film has been released several times on DVD. He had previously doubled Lon Chaney, Jr. In Universal's previous Mummy films, the Mummy was called "Kharis", but in this film it is called "Klaris." Stuntman Eddie Parker (billed as "Edwin") played the mummy. The day after filming completed, Abbott and Costello arrived in New York City to ride on the first float of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Īlthough Abbott and Costello were called "Pete Patterson" and "Freddie Franklin" in the script and in the closing credits, they used their real names onscreen during filming.Ībbott and Costello Meet the Mummy was filmed from October 28 through November 24, 1954, and is the last film that Abbott and Costello made for Universal Pictures, although Universal released a compilation film of clips from their films, titled The World of Abbott and Costello in 1965. Chandra Kaly and His Dancers as dance troupeĬostello's daughter, Carole Costello, has a small part as a flower girl.Abbott and Costello convince Semu to turn the temple into a nightclub to preserve the legend of Klaris and the three criminals who wanted to steal the treasure are presumably arrested. Eventually all three mummies are in the same place at the same time, and the dynamite that Rontru intends to use to dig up the treasure detonates, killing Klaris and revealing the treasure. Abbott follows suit by disguising himself as a mummy, and he and Costello rescue Semu. Rontru captures Semu, and one of her men, Charlie, disguises himself as a mummy and enters the temple. They arrive at the tomb, where Costello learns of Semu's plans to murder them all. Meanwhile, Semu's followers have returned life to Klaris. Semu arrives, posing as an archaeologist, and offers to guide them all to the tomb. However, she cannot read the medallion's inscribed instructions, which are in hieroglyphics. Rontru arrives and drags them to a doctor's office to get a look at the medallion under a fluoroscope. They frantically try to give it to one another, until it winds up in Costello's hamburger and he swallows it. She tells them to meet her at the Cairo Café, where Abbott and Costello learn from a waiter that the medallion is cursed. Rontru offers them $100, but Abbott suspects it is worth much more and asks for $5,000, which Rontru agrees to pay. The medallion has been left behind, though, and is found by Abbott and Costello, who attempt to sell it. However, two of Semu's men, Iben and Hetsut, murder the doctor and steal the mummy just before Abbott and Costello arrive. The followers of Klaris, led by Semu, overhear the conversation along with Madame Rontru, a businesswoman interested in stealing the treasure of Princess Ara.Ībbott and Costello go to the doctor's house to apply for the position to accompany the mummy back to America. Apparently the mummy has a sacred medallion that shows where the treasure of Princess Ara can be found. Gustav Zoomer discussing the mummy Klaris, the guardian of the Tomb of Princess Ara. Two Americans who are stranded in Cairo, Egypt, happen to overhear Dr.
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