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The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)

The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu poster
Directed by
Rowland V. Lee
Genre
silent film, crime film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 13m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 18 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A criminal mastermind fakes his own death and comes back to get revenge on the people he blames for his family's deaths. The story follows his plot against a group of people in 1920s London.

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What happens

The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Rowland V. Lee. It is the second of three films starring Warner Oland as the fiendish Fu Manchu, who returns from apparent death in the previous film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929), to seek revenge on those he holds responsible for the death of his wife and child. It was loosely adapted from the 1916 novel of the same name by Sax Rohmer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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