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| The Brides of Fu Manchu | |
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| Directed by | Don Sharp |
| Screenplay by | Peter Welbeck |
| Based on | Fu Manchu bySax Rohmer |
| Produced by | Harry Alan Towers David Henley |
| Starring | Christopher Lee Douglas Wilmer Heinz Drache Marie Versini Howard Marion-Crawford Tsai Chin Rupert Davies Roger Hanin |
| Cinematography | Ernest W. Steward |
| Edited by | Allan Morrison |
| Music by | Bruce Montgomery |
Production companies | Fu Manchu Films Constantin Film |
| Distributed by | Anglo-Amalgamated Warner-Pathé(UK)[1] Constantin Film(West Germany)[2] |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Countries | United Kingdom West Germany |
| Language | English |
The Brides of Fu Manchu is a 1966British/West GermanConstantin Filmco-productionadventurecrime film based on the fictional Chinese villainDr. Fu Manchu, created bySax Rohmer. It was the second film in a series, and was preceded byThe Face of Fu Manchu.The Vengeance of Fu Manchu followed in 1967,The Blood of Fu Manchu in 1968, andThe Castle of Fu Manchu in 1969.[3] It was produced byHarry Alan Towers for Hallam Productions. Like the first film, it was directed byDon Sharp, and starredChristopher Lee as Fu Manchu.Nigel Green was replaced byDouglas Wilmer asScotland Yard detectiveNayland Smith.[4]
The action takes place mainly inLondon, where much of the location filming took place.
In 1924, Dr. Fu Manchu, his army ofdacoits and his vicious daughter Lin Tang are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his hidden base in theAtlas Mountains, where he demands that their fathers help him to build a device that transmitsblast waves through a radio transmitter, which he intends to use to take over the world. He plans to keep (even wed) the girls in question. But Dr. Fu Manchu's archenemy,Nayland Smith ofScotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.[5]
Credits adapted from the booklet of the Powerhouse FilmsBlu-ray boxsetThe Fu Manchu Cycle: 1965-1969.[6]
The Brides of Fu Manchu(all uncredited)
Sharp recalled producer Harry Alan Towers used the film to showcase "young and beautiful actresses". It was shot atBray Film Studios (UK). Nigel Green was not available to repeat his performance as Nayland Smith so he was replaced by Douglas Wilmer. Sharp recalled filming went "smoothly but already the signs were there that" Towers could make Fu Manchu movies without having to "worry too much because the stories were okay. Well, there was more to making the movies than that."[7]
Writing inDVD Talk, film criticGlenn Erickson described the film as a "vaguely 007-inspired thriller," that "Christopher Lee is imposing in false eyelids and a long moustache," and that director Sharp "keeps the action humming."[8]
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