The Brides of Fu Manchu
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Directed by | Don Sharp |
Screenplay by | Peter Welbeck |
Based on | Fu Manchu by Sax 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] |
Release date |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Countries | United Kingdom West Germany |
Language | English |
The Brides of Fu Manchu is a 1966 British/West German Constantin Film co-production adventure crime film based on the fictional Chinese villain Dr. Fu Manchu, created by Sax Rohmer. It was the second film in a series, and was preceded by The Face of Fu Manchu. The Vengeance of Fu Manchu followed in 1967, The Blood of Fu Manchu in 1968, and The Castle of Fu Manchu in 1969. It was produced by Harry Alan Towers for Hallam Productions. Like the first film, it was directed by Don Sharp, and starred Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu. Nigel Green was replaced by Douglas Wilmer as Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith.[3]
The action takes place mainly in London, where much of the location filming took place.
Plot
[edit]In 1924, Dr. Fu Manchu, his army of dacoits and his vicious daughter Lin Tang are kidnapping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his hidden base in the Atlas Mountains, where he demands that their fathers help him to build a device that transmits blast 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 of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.[4]
Cast
[edit]Credits adapted from the booklet of the Powerhouse Films Blu-ray boxset The Fu Manchu Cycle: 1965-1969.[5]
- Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu
- Douglas Wilmer as Nayland Smith
- Heinz Drache as Franz Baumer
- Marie Versini as Marie Lentz
- Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie
- Tsai Chin as Lin Tang
- Rupert Davies as Jules Merlin
- Kenneth Fortescue as Sergeant Spicer
- Joseph Fürst as Otto Lentz
- Roger Hanin as Inspector Pierre Grimaldi
- Harald Leipnitz as Nikki Sheldon
- Carole Gray as Michel Merlin
- Burt Kwouk as Feng
- Salmaan Peerzada as Abdul
- Eric Young as Control Assistant
- Wendy Gifford as Louise
- Poulet Tu as Lotus
- Sally Sheridan as Shiva
- Denis Holmes as Constable
- Maureen Beck as Nurse Brown
- Michael Chow as Guard
- Kristopher Kum as Wireless Operator
- Tommy Yapp as Dacoit
The Brides of Fu Manchu (all uncredited)
Production
[edit]Sharp recalled producer Harry Alan Towers used the film to showcase "young and beautiful actresses". It was shot at Bray 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."[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)". BBFC. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ "Die driezehn Sklavinnen des Dr. Fu Man Chu". filmportal.de. Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (27 July 2019). "Unsung Aussie Filmmakers: Don Sharp – A Top 25". Filmink. Archived from the original on 2 August 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ "The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)". Archived from the original on 21 February 2018.
- ^ The Fu Manchu Cycle: 1965-1969 (The Brides of Fu Manchu: Cast) (booklet). Powerhouse Films. 2020. p. 7. PHILTD201.
- ^ Sharp, Don (2 November 1993). "Don Sharp Side 5" (Interview). Interviewed by Teddy Darvas and Alan Lawson. London: History Project. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021. Retrieved 14 July 2021.
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- 1966 films
- 1966 adventure films
- 1960s crime thriller films
- British adventure films
- British crime thriller films
- West German films
- 1960s English-language films
- English-language German films
- Films directed by Don Sharp
- Films set in 1924
- Films based on British novels
- Fu Manchu films
- Films set in London
- Films shot in London
- 1960s British films