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The Blood of Fu Manchu

  • 1968
  • M
  • 1h 32m
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
1.6K
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The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
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Fu Manchu poisons and hypnotizes ten women to bring down his enemies, including Nayland Smith, with kisses of death.Fu Manchu poisons and hypnotizes ten women to bring down his enemies, including Nayland Smith, with kisses of death.Fu Manchu poisons and hypnotizes ten women to bring down his enemies, including Nayland Smith, with kisses of death.

  • Director
    • Jesús Franco
  • Writers
    • Jesús Franco
    • Manfred R. Köhler
    • Sax Rohmer
  • Stars
    • Christopher Lee
    • Richard Greene
    • Howard Marion-Crawford
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.3/10
    1.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jesús Franco
    • Writers
      • Jesús Franco
      • Manfred R. Köhler
      • Sax Rohmer
    • Stars
      • Christopher Lee
      • Richard Greene
      • Howard Marion-Crawford
    • 38User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
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    Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    • Fu Manchu
    Richard Greene
    Richard Greene
    • Nayland Smith
    Howard Marion-Crawford
    Howard Marion-Crawford
    • Dr. Petrie
    • (as Howard Marion Crawford)
    Götz George
    Götz George
    • Carl Jansen
    Maria Rohm
    Maria Rohm
    • Ursula Wagner
    Ricardo Palacios
    Ricardo Palacios
    • Sancho Lopez
    Loni von Friedl
    Loni von Friedl
    • Celeste
    Frances Khan
    • Carmen
    Tsai Chin
    Tsai Chin
    • Lin Tang
    Isaura de Oliveira
    • Yuma
    Shirley Eaton
    Shirley Eaton
    • Black Widow
    David de Keyser
    David de Keyser
    • of The Governor andothers
    • (voice)
    Robert Rietty
    Robert Rietty
    • of Jansen and Lopez and others
    • (voice)
    Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui
    • The Governor
    • (uncredited)
    Jesús Franco
    Jesús Franco
    • Inspector Ahmet
    • (uncredited)
    • …
    Olívia Pineschi
    • One of Fu's Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Vicente Roca
    • Governor's Secretary
    • (uncredited)
    Francesca Tu
    Francesca Tu
    • Lotus
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jesús Franco
    • Writers
      • Jesús Franco
      • Manfred R. Köhler
      • Sax Rohmer
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    User reviews38

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    4claudio_carvalho

    Silly and Lame

    Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) is hidden with his evil daughter Lin Tang (Tsai Chin) in a lost city he has found in the jungles of South America. He discovers a poison deadly for men through kiss and he abducts ten women to infect them with the poison to destroy his enemies. Then he sends one woman to London to kiss his greatest enemy, the Scotland Yard agent Nayland Smith (Richard Greene). Nayland is blinded by the poison and his friend Dr. Petrie (Howard Marion Crawford) travels with him to the jungles in South America to seek out Fu Manchu expecting to find an antidote. They team up with agent Carl Jansen (Götz George) and soon they learn the scheme of Fu Manchu for world domination.

    "The Blood of Fu Manchu" is a silly and lame adventure of the infamous Fu Manchu by Jess Franco. The acting is dreadful and the plot is confused and boring with no emotion. The speeches of Howard Marion Crawford and Götz George are very difficult to be understood and most of the women are beautiful actresses. My vote is four.

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    8micahgallo

    "The world shall hear from me again!"

    This solid, sumptuous adaptation the Fu Manchu series (the director's first of two) is further evidence of both Christopher Lee's tremendous character acting and that Spanish director Jess Franco actually did make some good movies. This movie is not "perfect" by any means, but Franco milks the meager budget for every dime and delivers maximum scale for this bizarre pulp epic. He delivers on all the sex, violence, and the macabre you would expect from a Franco flick and also manages to create a sense of dignity and responsibility about the whole thing (with much help from Lee's focused performance). Anyway, good stuff. Especially if you are in to adventure serials and/ or jungle exploitation films. Don't miss out on a newly discovered classic. Blue-Underground's DVD of the uncut, beautifully rendered remastering should revert many of the film's most passionate critics into true believers.
    3The_Void

    Lacklustre effort from Franco and Lee

    In spite of the fact that this is the 4th (I think) entry in Christopher Lee's Fu Manchu "series" (I'm assuming they don't all follow on from each other), it's the first one I've seen and if the rest of them are anything like this; I hope it's the last! I can't profess to know a great deal about this series having only seen one film in it; though I am familiar with the character Fu Manchu after having seen the 1932 Boris Karloff film. Christopher Lee is a great actor, but here he looks like he couldn't really be bothered; for a start, Fu Manchu is meant to be an oriental character, and Lee doesn't even try to put on an oriental accent! The plot follows Fu Manchu's quest for world domination and focuses on his bright idea of filling up a load of women with poison and using them to seduce ten of the most powerful men in the world. It actually doesn't sound like that bad a springboard for a decent film, adding in the jungle setting and a super villain, you'd really be forgiven for thinking that this film is going to be a lot better. Jess Franco takes the directors chair and it seems, as is often the case, he cared more about his paycheck than the film as it lacks suspense and excitement, the characters are mostly dull and the situation is not made the best of. Overall, this film may do something for fans of the series; but personally it hasn't made me want to see more of these films!
    5gridoon2025

    Tame, neutralized Franco

    If you read the plot synopsis of "Blood Of Fu Manchu" it sounds like exploitation gold, but don't get your hopes up: it doesn't make the most of its premise (to put it kindly). Despite noted smut peddler Jess Franco in the director's chair, it is quite tame, and despite being part of the Fu Manchu series, a stereotypically fat, unshaven, cackling bandit has by far the most screen time (Shirley Eaton fans will also be disappointed; her part is a 2-minute cameo). Location filming in Brazil and Christopher Lee's commanding (even if unconvincing) performance are pretty much its only assets. ** out of 4.
    3Coventry

    Not a very good film...

    The evil Fu Manchu continues his endless quest for world domination but first; he has developed a plan to eliminate his arch-enemies (of which Scotland Yard's Nayland Smith is top priority). So our oriental master-criminal has kidnapped 10 of the most beautiful women on the planet and stuffed their bodies with the world's deadliest poison. Their orders are to seduce the enemies and kill them with "the kiss of death". His fiendish plan almost succeeds but Smith survives the assault and goes after Fu Manchu, who shelters in the jungles of South America. The premise of this sequel sounds promising enough but, don't be fooled, it's a terribly boring and unexciting film. There are so many things wrong with this production I don't even properly know where to start. For starters, the screenplay introduces way too many characters and actually none of them are worth mentioning. There's no tension and there's a total lack of gore and sleaze, as well (considering Jess Franco signed for the direction, I was at least hoping for this). There are a lot of battle sequences but they're painfully tame and tedious. Franco makes no use of the great jungle-location at all and the editing is lousy. Judging by his emotionless performance, Christopher Lee wasn't interesting in repeating the Fu Manchu role for the fourth time at all. Jess Franco also directs on automatic pilot, meaning without the slightest bit of passion or motivation. For him this was just another easy-money job in between some euro-trash cinema highlights like "99 Women" and "Marquis de Sade: Justine". The absolute best Fu Manchu film remains the 1932 "Mask of Fu Manchu" (starring Boris Karloff), although Don Sharp's efforts "the Face of…." and "The Brides of …" are pretty good as well. There's absolutely nothing to recommend about this one, so avoid unless you're a perfectionist...or really REALLY bored.

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    • Trivia
      Maria Rohm was married to Producer Harry Alan Towers at the time.
    • Quotes

      Fu Manchu: Centuries ago, an ancient race conquered this continent. Now their secrets are mine, and with this knowledge, I shall master the world.

    • Alternate versions
      The original cinema version was cut by the BBFC to receive an 'A' certificate with edits to nudity during the dungeon scenes and shots of Sancho's men attacking the women in the village. The 1994 Lumiere video release was more heavily cut and lost 1 minute 46 secs of censor cuts to shots of chained women, a scene where a woman is stripped topless and bitten by a snake, and shots of a snake being crushed by falling rubble. For the 1999 Warner video similar cuts were made though the cuts length was reduced to 44 secs via different edits. All the cuts were waived for the 2007 Optimum DVD.
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      Edited into The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)

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    • Release date
      • September 24, 1969 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • West Germany
      • Spain
    • Languages
      • English
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Against All Odds
    • Filming locations
      • Madrid, Spain
    • Production companies
      • Udastex Films
      • Ada Films
      • Terra-Filmkunst
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 32m(92 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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