The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Aug 8, 1980

1h 48m

★ 4.8

BEWARE! See this movie - An hour later you'll want to see it again!

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Horror

Crime

Production Companies

Playboy Enterprises

Orion Pictures

Braun Entertainment Group

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu Trailers

Cast

Fu Manchu / Nayland Smith

Peter Sellers

Alice Rage

Helen Mirren

Sir Roger Avery

David Tomlinson

Joe Capone

Sid Caesar

Robert Townsend

Simon Williams

Peter Williams

Steve Franken

Ismail

Stratford Johns

Perkins

John Le Mesurier

Sir Thuud

John Sharp

Dr. Wretch

Clément Harari

Tang

Kwan-Young Lee

Fu Manchu's Servant

Burt Kwouk

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