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Carey Loftin
Stunts -
Richard Schayer
Original Film Writer -
Reginald Le Borg
Director -
John L. Balderston
Original Film Writer -
Maxwell Shane
Characters -
Frank Skinner
Music -
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Original Film Writer -
Griffin Jay
Story
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CinemaSerf
6/30/2022 8:48:13PM
This film belongs to a suitably maniacal John Carradine as "Yousef Bey" who has been charged by the gods to empower the mummified body of the High Priest "Kharis" (Lon Chaney Jr. but it might as well have been anyone) to reunify with the Princess Ananka who appears to have reincarnated in the guise of "Amina" (the glamorous but terribly static Ramsey Ames). Who can stop this? Well that task falls to Robert Lowery ("Tom") who has to thwart the increasingly ambitious plotting of Carradine and his embalmed enforcer. I quite enjoyed it, but it has little of merit to recommend it; the action scenes are as lumbering as Chaney doing the cha-cha; the dialogue likewise and but for Carradine's eyes and a few scenes from George Zucco as the modern day High Priest, it would fall entirely by the wayside.
John Carradine
Yousef BeyLon Chaney Jr.
KharisBess Flowers
Townswoman (uncredited)Frank Reicher
Prof. Matthew NormanBarton MacLane
Inspector WalgreenRobert Lowery
Tom HerveyGeorge Zucco
Andoheb, High Priest of ArkanDavid Bruce
Radio Announcer (uncredited; voice)