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The Face of Fu Manchu

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Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) and helper Dr. Petrie (Howard Marion-Crawford) hunt diabolical Fu (Christopher Lee), out to rule the world with toxic gas.
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Eddie Harrison film-authority.com 02/24/2021
3/5
...racist in the same way as referring to 'the China virus', picking up on decades of distrust and disinformation, attitudes that seem to still be with us today... Go to Full Review
Mike Massie Gone With The Twins 08/24/2020
5/10
Approaches everything with the utmost seriousness, which endows the hokey fantasy scenario with a certain gravity. Go to Full Review
Tony Mastroianni Cleveland Press 01/17/2019
The ultra-sophisticate may find the broad melodramatic flourishes and the heroics unacceptable, but this isn't a film for the ultra-sophisticate. Go to Full Review
MFB Critics Monthly Film Bulletin 01/31/2018
Resourcefully directed and inventively scripted, The Face of Fu Manchu is a first-class thriller, weakened only by some rather summary characterisation, and a grandiose but flurried ending. Go to Full Review
Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews 10/12/2016
B
Christopher Lee is a trip playing the notorious Chinese villain Fu Manchu. Go to Full Review
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12/26/2020 A film more dubious in quality than the moustache of the same name. See more ashley h @ashleyhobgood87 07/24/2017 The Face of Fu Manchu is a decent film. It is about Fu Manchu who has plans for world domination using a lethal poison gas are thwarted at every turn by his arch nemesis, Sir Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard. Christopher Lee and Nigel Green give good performances. The screenplay is a little slow in places. Don Sharp did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama and mystery. See more 03/22/2015 Sax Rohmer's archetypal racially insensitive master villain was popularized in serials, several film series, comic strips, comic books, and legendary moustache culture. Here he is done by Christopher Lee (?!) in the first of five forgettable 60s films. See more 09/07/2013 Way better than expected. While not exactly PC by today's standards, it's much more culturally sensitive than the books or the 1932 film. Fu Manchu is a great villain. It's too bad he was born out of xenophobia. See more bill t @Spuzz 06/21/2013 A bit of a jumbled mess of a movie, face of Fu Manchu features Christopher Lee as Manchu and Nigel Green playing a Sherlock Holmesque detective tracking him down. The main problem is that while Lee is good, his disciples are weak, curiously. You would think that a guy like Fu Manchu would have better assassins around then what he is got. This, believe it or not, is the reason this doesn't work. It's just not that believable. See more 01/09/2013 another hammer films horror entry. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) and helper Dr. Petrie (Howard Marion-Crawford) hunt diabolical Fu (Christopher Lee), out to rule the world with toxic gas.
Director
Don Sharp
Producer
Harry Alan Towers
Screenwriter
Harry Alan Towers
Distributor
Seven Arts Pictures
Production Co
Constantin Film Produktion
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 24, 1965, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2010
Runtime
1h 34m
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