Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Christopher Lee | ... | Fu Manchu | |
Douglas Wilmer | ... | Nayland Smith | |
Heinz Drache | ... | Franz Baumer | |
Marie Versini | ... | Marie Lentz | |
Howard Marion-Crawford | ... | Doctor Petrie (as Howard Marion Crawford) | |
Tsai Chin | ... | Lin Tang | |
Rupert Davies | ... | Jules Merlin | |
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Kenneth Fortescue | ... | Sergeant Spicer |
Joseph Fürst | ... | Otto Lentz (as Joseph Furst) | |
Roger Hanin | ... | Inspector Pierre Grimaldi | |
Harald Leipnitz | ... | Nikki Sheldon | |
Carole Gray | ... | Michel Merlin | |
Burt Kwouk | ... | Feng | |
Salmaan Peerzada | ... | Abdul (as Salmaan Peer) | |
Ric Young | ... | Control Assistant (as Eric Young) |
Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Sir Denis Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen. Written by Marty McKee <mmckee@wkio.com>
Christopher Lee is Fu Manchu and kidnaps the daughters of leading scientists in the Edwardian era in order to build a wireless transmitter that transmit power waves. He then hypnotises the women into submission (why not the scientists).
In one scene, what is clearly a pre-heterodyne wireless set he sends a message to his adversary, but then in the next scene behind it is a record player when he shows the message to his colleagues, like they changed the script halfway through.
There's also a scene where an actor turns off a noisy tap halfway through a telephone call, a car is shown whole after it has been crashed, a police constable that slips and slides on the road but recovers, a painful looking stage dive during a melee, and a flighty horse that looks like its about to run away.