Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy
Movie is an excellent movie. Seller mislead as to which version she was selling. Received Papa John's free movie after paying a high price for what I thought was the movie company's dvd.

a and c meet the mummy
very funny, a and c are my favorit actors,it is the best ,and i recommend it very highly

Raiders of the Lost Cavern
The film begins in Egypt with a French Apache dance. [No, its not a prototype for the Jerry Springer Show.] A professor has found a mummy of Klaris and will ship it to America. But others work to prevent this. Pete and Freddie go to visit Dr. Zummer and find a dead body and a lot of trouble. [A stunt double is used for Freddie.] Note the new technology of a tape recorder and a Polaroid Land camera. There is a dance to entertain or pad out this film. Then the boys perform their comic skits. They return to Dr. Zummer's house to search for clues. They find more trouble, but escape. They find a willing buyer for the medallion. Then another threat.

After a song the boys repeat some of their old skits (using hamburgers). [They were funnier the first couple of times.] Freddie is captivated by Miss Renfrew, the villainess. A fluoroscope reveals the medal and its hieroglyphs. They reveal the location of a vast treasure of untold wealth. Freddie stumbles into a secret cavern. He hears about the plot. Later the boys fall into a secret room. The dancers perform again. Miss Renfrew's boys have a scheme, so do Pete and Freddie. This results in three mummies running around with comic confusion. It all ends in a blast. Show business triumphs in the end.

I found their earlier pictures to be better comedies. Pete and Freddie forget to use their script names.

A Good Alternative to Volume 4
I enjoyed this movie very much, and have watched many of the skits several times. I think it is a very cute "last-of-the-series" movie; it moves quickly, it's not too long, and it's silly enough to take up a little time in an evening when I don't want to be stressed-out by a film that would take any focus. It also does not have the embarrassment-humour the 1940s were so fond of.

A&C don't look "old", just older--in fact I thought they looked great, and they are very well photographed; and they don't strike me as "tired" so much as relaxed. Instead of exaggerated cartoon characters, they seem like two cute, naturally funny middle-aging guys caught up in a ridiculous story. Abbott suffers more consequences of the situations than usual, and has more of the comedy than in other movies. The two also seem more like friends ragging on each other, instead of "the gullible little man with the mean manipulative mentor", and this is a fitting development for their age (in fact I would have omitted the two slaps A gives C). They don't play it straight like they do in 'Frankenstein', but act it out more the way they did in 'Lost in a Harem', with Costello appearing similarly disengaged (but taking much pleasure in casually winking at the audience).

The story is hopeless, but so what? Think of it as a full-length high-budget late-50's A&C TV special, and it's very entertaining. There are many good routines: the Poison-Drink (adapted for hamburgers), Now-you-see-it-now-you-don't with dead (and quasi-dead) bodies, a Stranger Does a Monologue skit, a running joke with Costello and a snake, a revised x-ray routine (from 'Here Come the Co-Eds'), a couple of In-Disguise skits; and they even do an original comprehension-misunderstanding routine, which comes off as a sort of self-tribute. The stuntmen are only used for quickie falls here and there, there is no long contrived chase ending, and best of all there are no offensive rear-screen projection shots (although there is some amusing matting).

Overall, this movie strikes me as a light-and-easy farewell to almost 20 years of partnership at a time when Abbott is about to retire and Costello to go on to other things. As such, I found it a very pleasant diversion. (Of course they did make one more film, but not after their usual style.) And Volume 4 of the "Best of..." series appears so full of flack, this single disc is a good alternative.

Yeah, it would have had a better ending if Milton Berle (in drag) had come out of the urn, but, hey...

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy DVD
This DVD is great for kids who have never had a chance to see old movies like this. I used it in my classroom as a reward on Halloween. Great fun!