The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

Aug 10, 1929

1h 22m

★ 6.0

DANGER - MYSTERY - THRILLS you'll never forget!

Overview

A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.

Genres

Crime

Romance

Thriller

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Rowland V. Lee Productions

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Cast

Dr. Fu Manchu

Warner Oland

Dr. Jack Petrie

Neil Hamilton

Lia Eltham

Jean Arthur

Inspector Nayland Smith

O. P. Heggie

Sylvester Wadsworth

William Austin

Sir John Petrie

Claude King

General Petrie

Charles A. Stevenson

Fai Lu

Evelyn Selbie

Li Po

Noble Johnson

Fu Mela

Laska Winter

Chinese Official (uncredited)

Wong Chung

Lawford Davidson

Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.

0.0

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6.5

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0.0

The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu

Apr 15, 1923

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6.5

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6.1

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5.0

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6.7

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A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole's young wife, and at his trial Poole swears vengeance against Wagner. Poole begins his plans to get revenge when he escapes his captors.

0.0

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A young man is going through a deep dilemma between killing his brother to keep his father's inheritance or leaving him alive, so he decides to meet a lawyer in a cafe to ask him for advice. The story is intertwined with an event in his family past, because when the boy decides to act, he is surprised by the consequences of an infidelity that occurred 25 years ago.

6.5

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6.2

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0.0

Jealousy

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Four good friends: Andre, Gio, Robbie, and Q-tip are rising stars in the drug business world. Animosity & death unfold amongst the crew which leads to Andre & Gio solve the mystery of their friend's sudden death.

0.0

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6.6

Trance

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A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

6.0

Slave of Crime

Sep 7, 1987

Tsai Chin, the daughter of the infamous Fu Manchu, controls a large empire of vice in her part of the Far East. She decides to kidnap and, through erotic chemical hypnosis, coerce all the members of a fabulously wealthy international rock band to sign over all their possessions to her empire. But an old enemy of Fu Manchu's begins stalking around her operation and threatens to destroy everything she has built.

5.3

The Hypnotist

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Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.

7.5

Cure

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A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

6.8

The Florentine Dagger

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7.0

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