YOUR SHOW TIME - "The Mummy's Foot" (1949)

 The Mummy mood I'm in keeps moving forward into the past, and that's why this Saturday Night Special is called "The Mummy's Foot!"

That's probably the worstest Mummy title I've ever heard, but this is actually a pretty good little tale, even if there's not a real bandaged up Mummy in it! 

I've never read the story, but from what I can tell, this TV show is absolutely based on this story by Théophile Gautier, even though they give him no credit at all, and instead credit the story to Stanley Rubin. It's either that or just a coincidence that the main character is named Princess Hermonthis in both the book and the movie!

 "The Mummy's Foot" was episode number 4 out of 26 episodes from a television show called
"Your Show Time" that ran for one season back in 1949! The host, or The Bookshop Man as they call him, was Arthur (Daughter of Dr. Jekyll) Shields! Lucky Strike must have been the sponsor, because he chain smokes through all his parts!

 Herbert Anderson has the role of a writer named Peter who is writing a play set in ancient Egypt. Yes, his apartment is adorned with Egyptian stuff, and he is walking like an Egyptian to get in the right frame of mind.

 This is Peter's girlfriend, soon to be his fiancée, Sylvia, as played by Peggy Dow.

"The Mummy's Foot" was the first of Peggy's ten credits. Maybe being in a movie with a human-sized invisible rabbit named "Harvey" was enough for her because she quick acting soon after that.

 Peter might already have a lot of Egyptian antiquities, but he's really happy because he just found a 3000 year old mummified foot at an antique store! Sylvia is less enthralled!

 This was Herbert Anderson's first appearance on TV, but he ended up being on a number of shows over the years. Probably the epoch of his career was his five year, and 146 appearances as Dennis The Menace's Dad, Henry Mitchell.

 Look who just walked in the room! It's Princess Hermonthis herself, in the flesh!

 Peter is taken off guard and is totally astounded by the sight of her!

 Why has the Princess just shown up out of the blue?

She's come to regain her foot that looters stole from her tomb!

 The gorgeous Princess Hermonthis is played by none other than
Phyllis Coates, Lois Lane herself!

The Princess is going to take Peter back to her home so her Father, the Pharaoh, can thank him!

 Peter's digging the idea for more than one reason!

 Who cares how, but somehow they are magically scooted off to ancient Egypt!

She really wants Peter to marry her, and become her seventh husband. Her other six husbands were all stuck into large urns and unceremoniously dropped into the Nile River when they pissed her off!

 The Princess shows her Father that she got her foot back!

The Father is played by J. Edward (Son Of Dracula) Bromberg. He was accused of being a Communist in 1950, and was blackballed from acting after that. His health soon went to Hell, and he had a heart attack the following year! He was only 47 years old!

 Oddly enough, something we don't see in these old movies much any more, Phyllis Coates and Peggy Dow are still both alive which puts them both in their early 90's!

No Mummy's curse here!

When Peter gets back home, he wakes up, and realizes the whole thing was a dream, but there's just one thing!

The foot is gone!

FRANKENSTEIN / Bob Tinnell: Monster Kid Home Movies - 1977

I searched through all my TV junk looking for anything Mummy, and, Hell No, I don't gots nuthin'... So, here's another Monster Kid Mome Movie by Bob Tinnell from 1977. I noticed that this one has fairly good production values, nice title card, no overexposed scenes, etc. In this 1:51 minute tale, our lil' mad scientist creates his own Frankenstein Monster!!

Looks like it's time to clean his corpse up a little before he brings it back to life...

Getting it right takes lots of calculations and equipment settings tuned exactly to the correct voltage to assure success!.. Hey, nice wallpaper.

It's time to test his theory about reanimating a pieced together corpse... You know, sparklers always do the trick for kids, I mean, wow, what a great effect. But, wouldn't it work better if both of 'em were lit, right?!

Okay, let's take a look under those bandages and see what we gots going on here...

WHAT THE!!..... He doesn't look that annihilated!.. Stupid kids!! What's that thing on his nose?.. Anyway?

Then, everything goes haywire! Typical monster, it wants to choke everything in sight.

He seems happy as Hell doing his thang, but, what's with the eye makeup?!

The Monster stands up and pushes our little mad doctor to the floor. And, wouldn't you know it, there's a pirate pistol just sitting there, what luck!

The little guy pulls the trigger, and POW, right in the chest!!

Our mad scientist is relieved, he lived to tell his tale. I wonder if he'll ever attempt to bring corpses back to life again! I would assume that Bob Tinnell played the Monster. So, join us again tomorrow for more from The Dungeon Gang!

SUPERMAN in THE MUMMY STRIKES - "My Mummy Done Told Me" (1943)

Okay, it's Mummies, Mummies, Mummies on this Weird Wednesday in The Dungeon!

So get ready for "The Mummy Strikes."

The title was liked well enough that DC brought out this comic in 1987 called "The Mummy Strikes!"

"The Mummy Strikes" was made in 1943, and is only a little over eight minutes long, and I'm sure you can find it some place on the internet to watch for free if you so desire!

I saw this, and all I could think of was Hurricane Dorian!

It would probably be a good time to donate to the Red Cross!

Any cartoon that starts off like this is almost guaranteed to be a laugh fest!

There's a short story here, but mostly this is about imagery!

If Mothers are sometimes call Mummy, shouldn't Dads be called Dummy?

Clark Kent pushes the release, and then this thing fires a power ball and charges up the five Mummies protecting the tomb of their boy King!

This is the first Mummy to snap out of it, and he seems pretty irritated by the whole scene!

 

 He snaps his bandages off, and starts taking it out on Clark Kent!

Superman shows up, and there's a bit of a tussle. There was a lot of bravado, but the Mummies are no match for the Man Of Steel, and he disposes of them very quickly!

Lois Lane gets scared, and actually injures her arms to the point where she can't go back to The Daily Planet and write the article, so Clark Kent gets the scoop!

As far as more Mummy action in the comics, for a little over a hundred bucks, you can get a copy of this issue of "Action Comics" from 1967, and it's Mummy story called "The Face Of Fear."

This 1965 Superboy Comic #123 has a story in it called "The Curse Of The Superman Mummy!"

I'm thinking in 1963, that they might have just gone a little too far with Batman and Robin as the "Mummy Crime-Fighters!"
With all this Mummy Madness, I'm surprised there's not a story about a Mummy baseball player called "The Mummy Strikes Out!"
I'll be back on Saturday with more useless and monotonous Mummy information, so try and stay out of trouble until then!