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Deal: ‘Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection’ DVD Box Set
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Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection DVD box set

Amazon currently has a sale all this week on the Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection DVD box set for $50.99 (that’s 58% off the list price of from $119.98).

This 15-disc DVD box set contain all 28 of the comedy duo’s movies made by Universal Pictures, including ones like Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, where the twosome face the Universal monsters, along with Buck Privates and Who Done It?, as well as routines like “Who’s on First?,” Two Tens for a Five,” and “Mustard.”

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The Legacy of Universal’s ‘Mummy’
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Mummy

Boris Karloff as the MummyThe Mummy as the fictional character first made his on-screen appearance in the 1932 Universal film The Mummy, which starred Boris Karloff as Imhotep, a 3,700-year-old cursed mummy accidentally brought back to life. Karloff’s Mummy established the character as a horror icon the likes of Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster.

For decades, The Mummy has been remembered as a slow-stalking, moaning vengeful killer, similar in gait to Frankenstein’s Monster. Universal’s Mummy films from the 1940s ramped up their horror movie line and secured the Mummy’s as an iconic cinematic monster, ready to make appearances with 1950’s comedians Abbott and Costello, in Scooby-Doo cartoons, and on cereal boxes.

In the late 1950s, the British production company Hammer began making their own string of Mummy remakes of Universal’s 1940’s offerings, but for over fifty years, The Mummy laid dormant at Universal, until 1999, when the studio once again resurrected The Mummy. This time, the bandaged figure was alive in all his full-color CGI glory in The Mummy and then again in 2001 with The Mummy Returns.

This weekend sees the release of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the threequel to the 90’s franchise reboot starring Jet Li as a different kind of mummy.

Here’s a look at Universal’s line of Mummy movies and the undead it’s resurrected.

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