The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu

Apr 15, 1923

6h 11m

★ 0.0

Overview

A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu. Series of 15 shorts, each with a self-contained story.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Stoll Picture Productions

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Cast

Dr. Fu Manchu

H. Agar Lyons

Nayland Smith

Fred Paul

Karamaneh

Joan Clarkson

Dr. Petrie

Humberston Wright

Inspector Weymouth

Frank Wilson

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.

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.

5.1

Daughter of the Dragon

Sep 24, 1931

At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.

5.3

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

Aug 10, 1929

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

5.0

The Other Fu Manchu

May 6, 1946

No overview available.

0.0

The Further Mysteries of Fu-Manchu

Aug 1, 1924

Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.

7.0

Aaron's Rod

Jan 1, 1923

A mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers

5.5

The Mask of Fu Manchu

Nov 5, 1932

The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

3.8

Drums of Fu Manchu

Nov 27, 1943

Feature version of the 1940 Republic serial, about Fu Manchu's attempt to conquer Asia.

6.1

Drums of Fu Manchu

Mar 15, 1940

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.

5.0

The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

May 2, 1930

The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.

7.6

Billy Elliot

Sep 28, 2000

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

8.3

American History X

Jul 1, 1998

Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.

8.0

Before Sunrise

Jan 27, 1995

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.

5.0

Anybody's Nightmare

Sep 28, 2001

Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt.

5.7

The Lost People

Aug 22, 1949

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.

6.8

Mr. Emmanuel

Aug 2, 1944

An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.

7.9

Blade Runner

Jun 25, 1982

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

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