Ebony Film Company

Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled pokes fun at both mad scientists and the Egyptian mummy craze that followed the discovery of King Tut's tomb early in the 20th century. A young man wooing the daughter of a scientist hatches a get rich quick scheme when he spots a classified ad searching for "a mummy for experimental purposes." While he wraps up a phony for the scientist, two Egyptian agents (outfitted in a crazy mix of ancient fashion and modern style) tracking stolen relics get tangled in the confusion.

Chased from his apartment by a policeman, ne'er do-well Rastus Jones finds refuge in a Chinese laundry, where he wreaks slapstick havoc and has a memorable encounter with an improperly-filled opium pipe.

After getting kicked out of a vaudeville show for misbehaving, they decide to put on a show of their own.

Amateur detective Sambo Sam sets out to round up German spies, but his bungling leads him to the Coffin Club, a fraternal organization with a morbid sense of humor just itching to have some fun at the would-be sleuth's expense.

Flossie is a lady, dusky and charming. Her admirers are numerous, but she experiences difficulty in deciding between Sam, the husky piano mover, and Jimmie, the dandy.

Jimmy Marshall played a lazy drunkard with an overbearing wife, played by Florence McClain. The film contains a dream sequence where Marshall fantasizes about finding a magic lamp, which he uses to wish for liquor and a shack to sleep in.

An Ebony Film Company short.

Just imagine - picture in your mind, what would take place in a colored folks hotel, when all of the guests are having the kind of a good time no other but these awaiting a feast of fried spring chicken and hot biscuits being prepared by the big fat, black cook, the boss of the kitchen, when a blackhand letter is received from a discharged waiter threatening to blow up the place, and it is finally blown up.