Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled

1918

Comedy

5
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 264 264

mummy slapstick comedy all black cast

Director

R.W. Phillips Photo
R.W. Phillips

Top cast

Mattie Edwards Photo
Mattie Edwards as
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123.86 MB
1280*958
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
12 hr 13 min
Seeds 5
229.83 MB
1442*1080
English 2.0
NR
24 fps
12 hr 13 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gbill-74877 7 / 10

Worth a look

Love the absurdity in this short film, including the duck from a painting being brought to life by the scientist, a guy being wrapped up and passing for an ancient mummy, and how when his coffin is being dragged along the road, necessitating a stop, the guys hauling him bonk him over the head upon finding he's alive. The absolutely wild nitrate degradation that mars the existing print somehow goes with the energy of it. I also liked the sweetness in the couple stealthily kissing on the sofa. Definitely worth spending 11 minutes, and it's too bad the Ebony Film Company didn't survive for long.
Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Daddy may be mad, but he's not stupid and he wants his daughter to marry a man with some money. Daddy has also put an ad in the newspaper, to buy an Egyptian mummy for experiments, so his would-be son-in-law buys a sarcophagus and hires a guy to play the mummy.It's a pretty good comedy from 1918, with a a pleasantly complicated story and an appeal to the public interest in Egypt that would peak the following decade with the opening of King Tut's tomb. This film from the Ebony Film company, like the others, starred Black actors and was primarily tended for the all-Black movie houses of the era. The surviving print isn't in very good shape, but it's more than worth your time to look at.
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.
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