My hopes were not high for this barely one hour film after it spent a full 12 minutes recapping the events of "The Mummy's Hand" in excruciating detail with liberal use of clips from that film. However, it picks up rapidly after 20 minutes or so and becomes a very entertaining Universal Monsters film.
Lon Chaney, Jr. is quite intimidating as the Mummy but not to the same extent as he was as the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster. Dick Foran and Wallace Ford are much better as Stephen Banning and Babe Hanson (formerly Jenson) respectively than in the previous film even though they both have far less screen time. However, John Hubbard and Elyse Knox don't make much impression as the leads. (Incidentally, Knox was the mother of "NCIS" star Mark Harmon and you can certainly see the family resemblance.) The strongest performers are George Zucco in his brief cameo as Andoheb - he actually appears more in the clips from the previous film than in this one - and the 20-year-old, baby faced Turhan Bey as Mehemet Bey.
Lon Chaney, Jr. is quite intimidating as the Mummy but not to the same extent as he was as the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster. Dick Foran and Wallace Ford are much better as Stephen Banning and Babe Hanson (formerly Jenson) respectively than in the previous film even though they both have far less screen time. However, John Hubbard and Elyse Knox don't make much impression as the leads. (Incidentally, Knox was the mother of "NCIS" star Mark Harmon and you can certainly see the family resemblance.) The strongest performers are George Zucco in his brief cameo as Andoheb - he actually appears more in the clips from the previous film than in this one - and the 20-year-old, baby faced Turhan Bey as Mehemet Bey.