Underplayed Gems

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu poster
Directed by
Jeremy Summers
Genre
adventure film, crime thriller film
Country
Germany, United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
PG
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 26 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A British crime thriller from 1967. The villain Fu Manchu seeks revenge on his enemies while a detective tries to stop him. The story moves from London to Hong Kong.

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What happens

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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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