The Face of Fu Manchu Movie Review

Christopher Lee is novelist Sax Rohmer's nefarious Chinese arch-villain Fu Manchu, holed up in England in a secret laboratory under the Thames. With the help of his daughter and an imprisoned German scientist, Fu is after a deadly gas that will allow him to take over the world. It's the very proper Sir Nayland Smith to the rescue, along with enough dynamite to blow the Fu-ster's hiding place sky high. Will goodness prevail? Or will Fu triumph? This somewhat silly but enjoyable flick was the first of Lee's Fu Manchu films, followed in 1966 by The Brides of Fu Manchu.

1965 96m/C GB Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, James Robertson Justice, H. Marion Crawford, Tsai Chin, Walter Rilla; D: Don Sharp; W: Peter Welbeck; C: Ernest Steward. VHS