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Reviewed by Michael_Elliott

Fun Mummy Comedy

Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled (1918) *** (out of 4) Fun comedy has Bill wanting to marry the woman his loves but her father refuses until he can prove to be a money maker and capable of taking care of her. Bill then reads a note in the newspaper with a many offering a grand for an actual mummy so Bill goes out to find a mummy.I must admit that I had never heard of this film until it popped up on Kino's Pioneers of African-American Cinema collection. This film should certainly be better known and especially to horror fans since there's a mummy on display here. The comic timing is actually very good throughout the picture and I thought there were some hilarious sequences including one where the mummy (a man dressed up) falls off the back of a carriage and is being dragged around. Another funny sequences happens when a friend of Bill's sees a fake mummy.The only problem with this short is the fact that the start and end of the print are in really horrid shape. It's hard to make out what's going on and it's really too bad because this is still a gem.

Reviewed by ebeckstr-1 7 / 10

Entertaining historical and cultural artifact

Other IMDb reviewers have done a good job of describing this film's attributes. I will only add that the original score written and performed by Alloy Orchestra is fantastic, with its emphasis on bass, percussion, and a resonant piano. (I watched this film on the Criterion Channel, FYI.)

Reviewed by Cineanalyst

Mummified Decomposition

Ancient Egyptian mummies were a popular source early on in film history. The same year as this film, "Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled," saw the release of Ernst Lubitsch's "Eyes of the Mummy Ma." Moreover, this Ebony Film Company release is largely derivative of an earlier comedy short, "The Egyptian Mummy" (1914), but with a black cast instead of a white one. The slapstick here is broad, involving a man setting out to buy and, then, resell a sarcophagus--after hiring someone to pretend for a day to be the mummy inside--to the father of the woman he wishes to be engaged to so as to have enough money to win his approval to marry her. Seeing an early iteration of a mad scientist--and who, therefore, is in need of an ancient, preserved corpse--is amusing in its absurdity. Being distributed by Ebony, which shortly hereafter closed due to protests over the depiction of negative racial stereotypes, makes this also historically interesting to see for its racial representation--not only for African Americans in this case, but also for them depicting two ridiculous Western notions of Egyptian characters. The most fascinating aspect of viewing the surviving footage of this film today, however, has nothing to do with any of that.The decomposition of the nitrate film here is severe--particularly at the beginning and end. While unfortunate in respect to film preservation, although it's a blessing for such old films to exist in any shape considering that most from the era are now lost, the decomposition seems unintentionally apt here. This is a film, after all, that deals in mummies--the preserved remains of decaying bodies. It's the nitrate film that's the true relic, though. It's the mummified remains that today are most captivating.

Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled

1918

Comedy

Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled

1918

Comedy

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Fun Mummy Comedy

Entertaining historical and cultural artifact

Mummified Decomposition

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