The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
1967 British film by Jeremy Summers
- 25 May 1967 (1967-05-25)
Running time
West Germany
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (also known as Sax Rohmer's the Vengeance of Fu Manchu and Die Rache Des Dr. Fu Man Chu) is a 1967 British crime thriller adventure film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Christopher Lee, Horst Frank, Douglas Wilmer and Tsai Chin.[1] It was the third British/West German Constantin Film co-production of the Dr. Fu Manchu series and the first to be filmed in Hong Kong at the renowned Shaw Brothers studio. It was generally released in the U.K. through Warner-Pathé (as the second half of a double feature with the Lindsay Shonteff film The Million Eyes of Sumuru) on 3 December 1967.[2]
Cast
Credits adapted from the booklet of the Powerhouse Films Blu-ray boxset The Fu Manchu Cycle: 1965-1969.[3]
- Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu
- Douglas Wilmer as Nayland Smith
- Tsai Chin as Lin Tang
- Horst Frank as Rudy
- Noel Trevarthen as Mark Weston
- Maria Rohm as Ingrid Swenson
- Tony Ferrer as Inspector Ramos
- Peter Carsten as Kurt
- Wolfgang Kieling as Dr. Lieberson
- Suzanne Roquette as Maria
- Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie
- Mona Chong as Jasmin
- Eddie Byrne as Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Disappointingly, Fu Manchu's vengeance turns out to be a very tame affair after the period splendours of his earlier exploits. The ingredients are all here – boa constrictor plot, attractively photographed exteriors, and the Oriental villain and his sadistic daughter as venomous as ever – but somehow they fail to jell, and Jeremy Summers shows none of the inventiveness that Don Sharp brought to the first two films in this series. ... Christopher Lee and Tsai Chin are as impeccably sinister as before; but the hordes of blackpyjamaed henchmen are a curiously wooden lot, as though they had strayed on to the set from a Red Guard parade."[4]
References
- ^ "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- ^ Kinematograph Weekly vol. 605 #3137, 25 November 1967
- ^ The Fu Manchu Cycle: 1965-1969 (The Vengeance of Fu Manchu: Cast) (booklet). Powerhouse Films. 2020. p. 9. PHILTD201.
- ^ "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 35 (408): 12. 1 January 1968 – via ProQuest.
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