The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Jeremy Summers

Writers:

Sax Rohmer (characters)
Harry Alan Towers (writer)

Release Date:

January 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Horror

Plot:

In his remote Asian hideaway the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his arch rival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard...

Plot Keywords:

Scotland Yard | Fu Manchu | Branding | Sequel | Handcuffs

Cast

Christopher Lee	...	Dr. Fu Manchu
Douglas Wilmer	...	Nayland Smith
Tsai Chin	...	Lin Tang
Horst Frank	...	Rudy / Ronald "Ronny" Moss
Wolfgang Kieling	...	Dr. Lieberson
Maria Rohm	...	Ingrid Swenson
Howard Marion-Crawford	...	Dr. Petrie
Peter Carsten	...	Kurt Heller
Suzanne Roquette	...	Maria Lieberson
Noel Trevarthen	...	Mark Weston
Tony Ferrer	...	Insp. Ramos
Mona Chong	...	Jasmin

Also Known As:

Die Rache des Dr. Fu Man Chu (West Germany)

Runtime:

USA:91 min

Country:

UK | Ireland | West Germany | Hong Kong

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

West Germany:16 (nf) | Australia:M | Norway:16 | UK:PG | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

Company:

Ardmore Sound

Movie Connections:

Followed by The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)

Soundtrack:

The Real Me

Average third follow-up of Fumanchu-Christopher Lee series

This is an exciting and suspenseful, though mediocre Fu Manchu movie, but still enjoyable. It's a little boring, but is better than following entries, the low-budgeted and lackluster Jess Frank movies: ¨Kiss of the dead and The castle of Fumanchu¨ which most critics felt were the weakest of the series.

The co-protagonist is Nyland Smith, finely played by Douglas Wilmer -character also interpreted by Nigel Green and Richard Greene- ; he's a good English actor, usually in secondary acting -El Cid- , here is the starring and he's very well. The baddies are Horst Frank, a German actor usually playing the villain-role and Christopher Lee, as always acting as a magnificent evil-doer .Howard Marion Crawford is the assistant of Nyland Smith, a Watson-alike. And of course, the Fu Manchu's daughter, habitually played by T Sai Chin, acting perfectly as a nasty murderous.

In the film there are action,adventures,thriller, sadism and exotic outdoors filmed in China, because is produced by Harry Allan Towers(producer of the Fu Manchu's five movies) and the Chinese Shaw Brothers. The movie will like those have seen the different entries and Christopher Lee fans; the best installments are directed by Don Sharp : ¨Face of Fu Manchu(1965) and ¨Brides of Fu Manchu(1966)¨. Rating: Average but entertaining.