The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

Aug 10, 1929

1h 22m

★ 5.6

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

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6.1

The Face of Fu Manchu

Aug 6, 1965

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4.8

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Aug 8, 1980

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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5.5

The Climax

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4.1

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6.6

Carefree

Sep 2, 1938

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6.6

The Killer Is Loose

Feb 3, 1956

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6.2

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5.7

The Florentine Dagger

Mar 30, 1935

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6.1

Svengali

May 20, 1931

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2.0

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.

10.0

Lavenza

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6.6

Trance

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6.2

Hypnotic

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