The Vengeance of Fu Manchu

The Vengeance of Fu Manchu
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJeremy Summers
Screenplay byPeter Welbeck
Based onFu Manchu
by Sax Rohmer
Produced byHarry Alan Towers
StarringChristopher Lee
Douglas Wilmer
Tsai Chin
Maria Rohm
Noel Trevarthen
Howard Marion-Crawford
CinematographyJohn Von Kotze
Edited byAllan Morrison
Music byMalcolm Lockyer
Gert Wilden (West Germany)
Production
companies
Babasdave Films
Constantin Film
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Warner-Pathé (UK)
Constantin Film (West Germany)
Release date
  • 25 May 1967 (1967-05-25)
Running time
91 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
West Germany
LanguageEnglish

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]

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

  1. ^ "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
  2. ^ Kinematograph Weekly vol. 605 #3137, 25 November 1967
  3. ^ The Fu Manchu Cycle: 1965-1969 (The Vengeance of Fu Manchu: Cast) (booklet). Powerhouse Films. 2020. p. 9. PHILTD201.
  4. ^ "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 35 (408): 12. 1 January 1968 – via ProQuest.
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