The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Don Sharp

Writers:

Sax Rohmer (characters)
Harry Alan Towers (writer)

Release Date:

16 December 1966 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Better dead than wed!

Plot:

Christopher Lee returns as Sax Rohmer's insidious Asian villain Fu Manchu for the second of his five vehicles...

Plot Keywords:

Fu Manchu | Arab | Sequel | Bondage | Beautiful Woman

Cast

Christopher Lee	...	Fu Manchu
Douglas Wilmer	...	Sir Dennis Nayland Smith
Heinz Drache	...	Franz Baumer
Marie Versini	...	Marie Lentz
Howard Marion-Crawford	...	Dr. Petrie (as Howard Marion Crawford)
Tsai Chin	...	Lin Tang
Rupert Davies	...	Jules Merlin
Kenneth Fortescue	...	Sergeant Spicer
Joseph Fürst	...	Otto Lentz
Roger Hanin	...	Inspector Pierre Grimaldi
Harald Leipnitz	...	Nikki Sheldon
Carole Gray	...	Michel Merlin
Burt Kwouk	...	Feng
Salmaan Peerzada	...	Abdul (as Salmaan Peer)
Eric Young	...	Control Assistant

Also Known As:

Die dreizehn Sklavinnen des Dr. Fu Man Chu (West Germany)

Runtime:

USA:94 min

Country:

UK | West Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

West Germany:16 (nf) | UK:U | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | Australia:M

Company:

Constantin Film Produktion

Trivia:

Douglas Wilmer replaced Nigel Green.

Quotes:

Sir Dennis Nayland Smith: You have nothing to celebrate, Fu Manchu. The arms conference is safe. You are beaten.
Fu Manchu: That is where you are wrong, Commissioner. In a few moments there will be no arms conference.
Sir Dennis Nayland Smith: You will release that girl now and order your men to line up over there. I will count three before I fire. One... two...
Fu Manchu: [to henchman] Send her to the snakes!

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Slanted Screen (2006)

The world shall hear from Fu again...and again...

Surviving his cataclysmic demise at the end of Don Sharp's The Face Of Fu Manchu (1965), Christopher Lee dons the stick-on Eastern eyelids a second time, utterly and entertainingly unconvincing as Sax Rohmer's villain-to-end-all villains. With his daughter and resident henchmen led by Burt Kwouk (Kato in the Pink Panther series), Fu is now blackmailing the world's top scientists to create a doomsday device by kidnapping their daughters. Douglas Wilmer replaces The Face Of Fu Manchu's Nigel Green as Neyland Smith, Fu Manchu's lantern-jawed arch nemesis from Scotland Yard, and battles all manner of Cartoon oriental stereotypes before rescuing the reluctant harem from the firey finale. Lee utters the immortal words `The world shall hear from me again!", thus ensuring a further three sequels (Vengeance..., Castle... and Blood Of Fu Manchu, all released in 1968) for producer Harry Allen Towers - the last two in the series helmed by Spain's infamous hack Jess Franco (whose filmic Midas Touch could grind the Star Wars series to a halt!).