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Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Everett Brown
- Slave
- (uncredited)
Steve Clemente
- Knife Thrower
- (uncredited)
Willie Fung
- Ship's Steward
- (uncredited)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
- British Museum Official
- (uncredited)
Allen Jung
- Coolie
- (uncredited)
Tetsu Komai
- Swordsman
- (uncredited)
James B. Leong
- Guest
- (uncredited)
Oswald Marshall
- Undetermined Role
- (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
- Potentate
- (uncredited)
Lal Chand Mehra
- Indian Prince
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBoris Karloff actually wore a Chinese woman's wedding dress as costume.
- GoofsFu tortures Barton to obtain the whereabouts of Genghis Khan's mask and scimitar. Later on Fu is shown to have a serum that brainwashes people, so the torture of Barton was needless.
- Alternate versionsIn the 1970's, "Mask of Fu Manchu" was cut slightly (by about 2 minutes), removing references deemed particularly offensive to the Asian-American community (including several racial remarks and an extended version of the famous whipping scene). It is actually this cut version which MGM/UA released in the early 1990's on videotape, although the deleted segments were restored for the print of "Mask of Fu Manchu" used for the later laserdisc release "MGM Horror Classics," and the more recent DVD release.
- ConnectionsEdited into Mondo Lugosi - A Vampire's Scrapbook (1987)
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Once you get past a knighted member of the British Secret Service (Lewis Stone) doesn't have a British accent, but Fu Manchu does. Another knighted Brit (Lawrence Grant) does have a British accent but his daughter (Karen Morely) does not. Somehow, Fu Manchu has people hiding in sarcophagi dressed as mummies in the British Museum, plus one guy who appears to be wearing a beret inside a sarcophagus, but disappears. Once you overlook all this, and a few other things, such as the British finding Genghis Khan's tomb in about the same amount of time that Sir Lionel Barton is kept under a constantly ringing bell, this is actually pretty entertaining.
You have Karloff as Fu Manchu who has all these elaborate methods of torture and killing people, and like in the Bond films, people tend to escape before dying. At one point, Karloff looks a bit like Carmen Miranda at the Carnival in Rio. Myrna Loy, as others have commented, seems to be a sadistic nymphomaniac, which for some people, is quite possibly the perfect mate.
Overlook all of the things that don't make a lot of sense and just enjoy!
You have Karloff as Fu Manchu who has all these elaborate methods of torture and killing people, and like in the Bond films, people tend to escape before dying. At one point, Karloff looks a bit like Carmen Miranda at the Carnival in Rio. Myrna Loy, as others have commented, seems to be a sadistic nymphomaniac, which for some people, is quite possibly the perfect mate.
Overlook all of the things that don't make a lot of sense and just enjoy!
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- Gospodar Azije
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- $327,627 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 9 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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