Acquanetta had the co-starring role in the film as Amina, but she had a fainting spell, collapsed during filming and struck her head. This led to her being replaced with Ramsay Ames. Acquanetta stated that she fell on set on rocks that were supposed to be papier-mache, but were actually rocks painted white and that all she remembered was "I fell and struck my head [...] I woke up in the hospital". Frederick C. Othman visited the set of The Mummy's Ghost and talked with Chaney who openly discussed his discomfort in his outfit of the mummy Kharis, stating that "I sweat and I can't wipe it away. I itch and I can't scratch". Le Borg spoke of difficulty working with Chaney on set, stating that in the scene where Kharis attacks Professor Norman, Chaney seized Frank Reicher's throat and "squeezed so forcefully that Reicher nearly fainted". Filming ended September 1, 1943. Release The Mummy's Ghost was first shown in New York on June 30, 1944. It was distributed by the Universal Pictures Company. The film was followed by a sequel also released in 1944, The Mummy's Curse. Reception From contemporary reviews, William R. Weaver noted that the film had "considerable polish" and that it "sticks to its premise well enough" and that Chaney's performance in the film "advances his claim to a large following". Other reviewers commented on its relationship with the rest of the series with The New York World-Telegram stating: "The Mummy always has been the least impressive of movie monsters and he is doing nothing to enhance his reputation in his latest incarnation". A review in Harrisons's Reports declared the film as "mediocre" and the weakest of The Mummy series. From retrospective reviews, the authors of the book Universal Horrors stated that The Mummy's Ghost was "arguably, the best of The Mummy's Hand three sequels" and was "easily [Le Borg]'s best horror film, possibly his best film, period", noting that "despite all its shortcomings, The Mummy's Ghost shapes up as one of Universal's better Bs from this era of decline", praising elements such as Kharis having some sympathetic qualities which helped expand the series. Hans J. Wollstein of AllMovie gave the film a two out of five rating, finding that series was suffering "from a bad case of battle fatigue by 1944" and that the film was "arguably the weakest entry in the four-picture series". References