I dr. Fu Man Chu

Movie
German title	I dr. Fu Man Chu
Original title	The Face of Fu Manchu
Country of production	Great Britain , Germany
original language	English
Publishing year	1965
length	92 (German v. 83) minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Don Sharp
script	Harry Alan Towers (as Peter Welbeck )
production	Harry Alan Towers
music	Gert Wilden , Christopher Whelen
camera	Ernest Steward
cut	John Trumper
occupation
Christopher Lee : Dr. Fu Man Chu Nigel Green : Colonel Nayland Smith Joachim Fuchsberger : Carl Jannsen Karin Dor : Maria Merten James Robertson Justice : Sir Charles Howard Marion-Crawford : Dr. Petrie Tsai Chin : Lin Tang Walter Rilla : Prof. Merten Harry Brogan : Prof. Gaskell Chicken Tu : Lotus Archie O'Sullivan : Chamberlain Edwin Richfield : Chief Justice Joe Lynch : Overseer Peter Mosbacher : Hanumon

I dr. Fu Man Chu (Original title: The Face of Fu Manchu ) is the first film in the Dr. Fu Man Chu series by the British producer Harry Alan Towers . It started in German-speaking countries on August 6, 1965.

action

In the presence of Colonel Nayland Smith, Dr. Executed Fu Man Chu in China . The Danish professor Merten is kidnapped in a London cemetery and his driver, Matthius, is strangled with a Tibetan prayer shawl . The murder leaves Nayland Smith on Dr. Fu Man Chu's death is doubtful, as it comes from Tibet and his followers have mastered this type of killing. Dr. Merten is a world-famous biochemist who experiments with black mountain poppy extract. Under certain conditions, one molecule of the extract is enough to kill a person; one drop could kill the whole of London.

Dr. Fu Man Chu is really alive because a doppelganger was killed in his place. Since Professor Merten refuses to help him, he has his daughter Maria kidnapped. Under the threat of murdering Maria, Prof. Merten begins to produce the extract. Dr. Fu Man Chu uses favorable weather conditions to kill over 3,000 people in Fleetwick on the Thames with the help of the extract . Shortly afterwards, he announced that he would kill hundreds of thousands in London in two days if his orders were not obeyed.

Colonel Nayland Smith and Mertens assistant Carl Jannsen track down Fu Man Chu in underground docks of the Navy, free Maria Merten and destroy the shelter. Dr. Fu Man Chu fled to a palace in Tibet with his daughter and the prisoner Prof. Merten in order to get more seeds of the black mountain poppy. Smith and Jannsen can free the professor and blow up the palace. Dr. Fu Man Chu survived the demolition.

Reviews

"Horror adventure of a rather naive cut."

- Lexicon of international film

“Filmed Moritat about an Asian super gangster. The naive story and the design, which in some cases comes close to the cheapest smear direction, is an imposition on the minds and willingness of the audience to relax. "

- Protestant film observer

Others

The film is based on the novel The Mask of Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer . The producer Harry Alan Towers wrote the script under the pseudonym Peter Welbeck. In the British version the music is by Christopher Whelen .

The German professor Müller from Heidelberg of the original became the Danish professor Mertens in the German version, shortened by 10 minutes.

Web links

• I dr. Fu Man Chu in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ I, Dr. Fu Man Chu. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 312/1965.