We Want Our Mummy
1939 film by Del Lord / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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We Want Our Mummy is a 1939 comedy thriller short subject, directed by Del Lord starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard). It is the 37th entry in the series released by Columbia Pictures starring the comedians, who released 190 shorts for the studio between 1934 and 1959. The film marks the appearance of James C. Morton in this film series.
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Directed by | Del Lord |
Written by | Searle Kramer Elwood Ullman |
Produced by | Jules White |
Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Curly Howard Dick Curtis Bud Jamison James C. Morton Eddie Laughton Ted Lorch John Tyrrell |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 16:27[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
In the film, the Stooges are depicted as private detectives. Two museum curators hire them to locate an Egyptologist who disappeared in Cairo, and to retrieve the pharaoh's mummy which the Egyptologist had located before his disappearance. In Egypt, the detectives have to face both a criminal gang and a living mummy.