Product Details

• Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour
• Directors: Charles Lamont
• Writers: John Grant, Lee Loeb
• Producers: Howard Christie
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: January 28, 1998
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302884713
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #100,435 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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After 15 years of hit movies for Universal Studios, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello left the studio in the twilight of their partnership with the last of their monster comedies. Decked out in desert safari gear, the boys go looking for a job with an Egyptologist and wind up in the middle of a conspiracy concerning the murdered professor, an ancient mummy, and a magical medallion that, true to form, bumbling Costello manages to eat for dinner. Marie Windsor, the boss lady of a gang of treasure hunting crooks, dresses in a harem outfit to vamp for our chubby little hero, and the eternally stiff Richard Deacon hilariously plays the leader of an Egyptian mummy cult like a high school principal decked out for Halloween. Directed by longtime collaborator Charles Lamont, it's a typical Abbott and Costello farce with disappearing corpses, mistaken identities, and wacky word plays ("Take your pick" riffs on "Who's on first" with garden tools). While not as clever or spirited as their original monster mash Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the vaudeville veterans are still masters of the double take and fast-talk patter, and the picture climaxes with a screwball chase that involves not one, not two, but three mummies skittering through the phoniest looking pyramid this side of community theater. You were expecting realism? The boys appeared together once more on film, in Dance with Me, Henry, and then split up. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wait for Best of Volume 4, September 4, 2004

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Bliggick (Vancouver) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (DVD)

Although Meet The Mummy is a decent swan-song for Abbott and Costello with Universal Pictures after an incredible run of about 30 films I can't really recommend buying this DVD unless you can get it dirt-cheap or if for some reason you only like this A&C vehicle and none of their later films. Unlike the companion edition ...Meet Frankenstein, which is filled with wonderful special features that were not included with Best Of Volume 3, Meet The Mummy contains almost nothing except for production notes and cast and crew, and when Universal releases Best Of Volume 4 you will be paying no more than three dollars per movie which has made the Abbott and Costello Best Of series one of the best DVD values available.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who Cares About Behind-The-Scenes Grumbling?, November 27, 2002

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Edward Lee "Trekscribbler (NCC1205)" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (DVD)

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY was one of the funniest of their screwball antics. The tale of the two cleverest yucksters chasing a medallion to an ancient Egyptian crypt where they encounter -- as the title promises -- the Mummy is one classic set of laughs after another. All of the trades touched on the bitterness the two men felt for one another during the filming process of this outing, but, with all the magic of their performances still on the silver screen, you sure wouldn't know it. A great transfer for a classic addition to any DVD library, this is one for the ages.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bud and Lou put a wrap on their Universal movies., February 14, 2001

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Bud and Lou's final film at Universal is a pleasent little comedy, nothing more. It managed to generate some chuckles and a constant warm smile on my face, but no deep belly laughs (unlike some of their greatest work in Hold that Ghost, Hit the Ice, or ...Meet Frankenstein). Seeing character actors Michael Ansara and Richard Deacon in supporting roles was an added hoot for the movie. The best thing about ...Meet the Mummy that I can say is that after several viewings it still has not worn out its welcome as a Sunday afternoon time waster in our home. Enjoyable matinee fluff.