We Want Our Mummy (1939)
director: Del Lord
Review written by Xenorama
Professor Tuttle has been kidnapped, which makes people believe it's the curse of Rootentooten. The three best investigators have been called in to find him- enter our heroes. The boys get sent to Cairo to recover the mummy for $5,000! If they fail, it will be a benefit to humanity, so there's a win-win situation. The tomb is appropriately dank and comes complete with a spooky voice and a strange clawed monster- or so the tombsters would have us believe!
This is possibly the first comedy with a mummy. There's a good gag with the prof in a box which causes Moe some pain. Curly wants to go to Tunis for tuna sandwiches for lunch, and then swims in a mirage, despite cars being kept there. It's a fine bit with him, letting him go all out for a few minutes. He also gets a good gag with an echo as well.
The whole shtick brings to mind every possible Scooby Doo cartoon made- "I'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for those "Stooges!"
"Boy, was he homely."
