The Mummy was set in 1932, the year of its release. The first sequel, The Mummy's Hand is also chronologically coherent, set in 1940. The Mummy's Tomb takes place thirty years following the events of "Hand", with The Mummy's Ghost approximately two years after that. We learn that this movie is set an additional twenty five years after "Ghost", meaning that the events take place around 1997.
Part of the SON OF SHOCK package of 21 titles released to television in 1958, which followed the original SHOCK THEATER release of 52 features one year earlier.
Released on a double bill with The House of Fear.
The famous sequence in which Princess Ananka (Virginia Christine) rises from the dead in the swamp is slightly undercranked - a process that speeds up the action - which gives an eerie, unreal quality to her movements. The trick is given away by the overly fast movements of the branches around her.
The last of Universal's original MUMMY series of five features, at least until 1955's "Abbott and Costello meet the Mummy, " shot July 26-August 8, 1944, and released December 22.
The mask worn by Lon Chaney Jr. in this film (and preserved by Bob Burns) is the only surviving example of Jack P. Pierce's makeup.