We Want Our Mummy (1939)
director: Del Lord
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XenoramaProfessor 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!"
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Boy, was he homely."