The kiss of death of Dr. Fu Man Chu

Movie
Original title	The kiss of death of Dr. Fu Man Chu
Country of production	Germany , Spain , USA
original language	English
Publishing year	1968
length	89 minutes, ; Ger. Version 78 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Jess Franco
script	Harry Alan Towers; (as Peter Welbeck )
production	Harry Alan Towers
music	Gert Wilden , ; Daniel J. White
camera	Manuel Merino
cut	Waltraut Lindenau ; Allan Morrison
occupation
	Christopher Lee : Dr. Fu Man Chu; Götz George : Carl Jansen; Maria Rohm : Ursula Wagner; Richard Greene : Nayland Smith; Howard Marion-Crawford : Dr. Petrie; Tsai Chin : Lin Tang; Ricardo Palacios : Sancho Lopez; Loni von Friedl : Celeste; Shirley Eaton : Li Hong; Frances Kahn : Carmen; Isaura de Oliveira : Yuma; Marcelo Arroita-Jáuregui : Governor;
chronology
← Predecessor ; The Revenge of Dr. Fu Man Chu	Successor → ; The torture chamber of Dr. Fu Man Chu

The kiss of death of Dr. Fu Man Chu (in some databases also under the earlier spelling The Kiss of Death of Dr. Fu Man Chu ) is the fourth film in the Dr. Fu Man Chu series by the British producer Harry Alan Towers .

action

Dr. Fu Man Chu has in the South American rainforest withdrawn and there is a 500 year old Inca - Gift rediscovered that his victims only blind can before the next full moon die. He infects his slaves with it; they are immune to it and are supposed to kiss their opponents in order to transfer the poison.

Fu Man Chu's archenemy Nayland Smith is kissed by Celeste and then starts dating Dr. Petrie went to South America to find the antidote. With Carl Jansen's help, they find Fu Man Chu's headquarters. Shortly before the full moon, Dr. Petrie to extract the antidote from the blood of Carmen and save Nayland Smith.

Others

The producer Harry Alan Towers wrote the script under the pseudonym "Peter Welbeck". Shirley Eaton plays in a scene that was made during the shooting of the subsequent film (also by Towers), The Seven Men of Sumuru . The German version differs from the English-language original version The Blood of Fu Manchu in music and editing. Gert Wilden (music) and Waltraut Lindenau (editing) were responsible for the German revision; Manfred R. Koehler took care of the German dialogues and the German dubbing.

Reviews

"A sadistic adventure film."

- Lexicon of international film

"The imagination of film people is limitless when it comes to keeping a busy figure alive for the benefit of the box office."

- film-dienst , quoted here from: Hahn / Jansen, p. 166

“This […] very superficial, implausible German-Spanish-American coproduction turned out to be […] extremely brutal and in many places penetratingly sex-oriented. Not worth a shot of powder (despite Götz George and - in a tiny slave roll - wife Loni von Friedl)! "

- Protestant film observer

literature

Ronald M. Hahn ; Volker Jansen : Lexicon of Science Fiction Films. 720 films from 1902 to 1983 . Original edition, Heyne, Munich 1983 (Heyne-Buch; 01/7236), ISBN 3-453-01901-6

Web links

The kiss of death of Dr. Fu Man Chu in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

↑ The kiss of death of Dr. Fu Man Chu. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 403/1968

[1] The kiss of death of Dr. Fu Man Chu. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[2] Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 403/1968