MUMMY'S BOYS (1936) and a question about mummies in general
I notice TCM is airing the Wheeler and Woolsey comedy MUMMY'S BOYS in October? Has anybody seen it, and if so, how does it rank as a horror comedy? More interested in the horror elements than the...
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I didn't like MUMMY'S BOYS at all. If memory serves, the "mummy" is not in it very much, and we know at all times that it's just one of the characters dressed like a mummy.
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I happen to like Wheeler and Woolsey quite a bit but even I have to admit that their later films are just not as good as the earlier ones. Still, I rather enjoyed MUMMY'S BOYS and, since youve...
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Xenomorph, I've seen three W&W films to date, HIPS, HIPS HOORAY!, KENTUCKY KERNELS, which are both 1934, and HIGH FLYERS, their very last film. While perhaps not as good as the other two, I still...
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For you Wheeler & Woolsey fans out there, there IS a McFarland book on them -- in fact, uncredited, I wrote a good bit (maybe all -- I forget) of the MUMMY'S BOYS chapter.
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son of metaldams, HIGH FLYERS is fun and, if memory serves, has a great scene in which Bert does his Chaplin impression. DIPLOMANIACS lacks the level of word-play displayed in DUCK SOUP but, in many...
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I love W&W and bought all of their films that came out on lasrerdisc. While I've watched HIPS HIPS HOORAY, PEACH O RENO and DIPLOMANIACS numerous times, MUMMY'S BOYS and HIGH FLYERS were in my...
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Speaking as one of the worlds's few surviving Wheeler & Woolsey fans, but MUMMY'S BOYS is far from their best. I'd recommend COCKEYED CAVALIERS, HIPS HIPS HOORAY, KENTUCKY KERNELS or DIPLOMANIACS...
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I'd say their best film is that goofy musical swashbuckler COCKEYED CAVALIERS. The mummy scenes in MUMMY'S BOYS are disappointing, but early in the film I recall a murder in a thunderstorm that's...
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Am I the only sober one on this board? I've seen three of these things... I read the dammnd McF book cover to cover... Wheeler looks like Dwight Frye on a bad day, Woolsey is like a skinny George...
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<< Am I the only sober one on this board? << Believe it or not, Ted, I think they're even worse than THAT. Part of this comes from once having had a nutty friend who was...
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We want our Mummy does not have a Walking Mummy,just Curly,in a Mummy Suit,to foll the crooks. They find,the Mummy at the end of the short but he sadly does not move. I LOVE the STOOGES!!!
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"We want our Mummy does not have a Walking Mummy,just Curly,in a Mummy Suit,to foll the crooks. They find,the Mummy at the end of the short but he sadly does not move." I'm pretty sure Ted Lorch...
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The first five minutes is the best of Mummy`s Boys. An older man is scoffing at the idea of a curse. All of a sudden he simply drops dead. There is a raging thunderstorm with frequent lightning...
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That's what I said more than a month ago! (Although I assume the guy was secretly mudered, since the curse turns out to be bogus).
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Well, I finally saw it, and it was my least satisfying W&W experience. Definitely no classic like DIPLOMANIACS or HIPS, HIPS, HOORAY!, but I had maybe three or four small laughs. I do agree about...
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MB was on TCM last Sunday night. I didn`t finish watching it. Maybe by the end of the film it was disclosed that the old guy was murdered. Don`t know.
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