The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

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

Colour:

Colour (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:

Fu Manchu: As you were the leader of the rebellion, you shall be the first to go to the snakes.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Slanted Screen (2006)

Got something up his sleeve

The 2nd Fu Manchu movie with Christopher Lee has many ideas which work really well. We are often given some information in advance, such as who is working for Fu Manchu or where his headquarters are, while the heroes still have to find out about that. Everyone has something up his sleeve: when Smith send a false scientist to Fu Manchu, the Chinese builds a wrong antenna to fool Smith. Scotland Yard's best investigator is tougher and more efficient than in the first movie. „I am not giving you the choice. Either you help me or I arrest you for murder, and when that happens, Fu Manchu will have no further use for your daughter", he once threatens a victim of Fu Manchu. Marie Versini plays the daughter of a German scientist with her thick French accent, but grateful for the opportunity to look at her, the audience will forgive that. The silent helpers of the mastermind now get a few lines as well, it makes them more real. Surely there are things which make no sense (why is an Egyptian looking dungeon in Morocco?), but all in all, the sequel is better than its predecessor. Voted 7/8/5/7/4 for the five movies.