The Blood of Fu Manchu
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| Directed by | Jesús Franco |
| Produced by | Harry Alan Towers |
| Written by | Harry Alan Towers |
| Starring |
Christopher Lee Tsai Chin Maria Rohm Richard Greene Götz George Howard Marion-Crawford Shirley Eaton |
| Music by | Daniel White |
| Cinematography | Manuel Merino |
| Edited by | Alan Morrison |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Blood of Fu Manchu, also known as Fu Manchu and the Kiss of Death, Kiss of Death, Kiss and Kill and Against All Odds, is a 1968 British adventure crime film directed by Jesus Franco, based on the fictional Asian villain Fu Manchu created by Sax Rohmer. It was the fourth film in a series, and was preceded by The Vengeance of Fu Manchu. The Castle of Fu Manchu followed in 1969.
It was produced by Harry Alan Towers for Udastex Films. It starred Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu, Richard Greene as Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith, and Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie. The movie was filmed in Spain and Brazil. Shirley Eaton appears in a scene she claimed she was never paid for; apparently the director Jesus Franco inserted some footage of her from another of her films (The Girl from Rio, 1968) into the Fu Manchu movie without telling her. She only found out years later that she was in a Fu Manchu film.
Plot
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu has discovered a deadly poison in a "lost city" in the Amazonian jungle that affects only men. Women can become carriers of the "kiss of death" by being bitten by venomous snakes. The poison causes blindness and ultimately followed six weeks later by death. Using mind control, he aims the women at Nayland Smith and other key people with political influence. This prevents them from interfering with his own ambitions to prepare millions of "doses" and spread them around the world's major cities and capitals in a plan to gain world domination.
Cast
- Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu
- Richard Greene as Nayland Smith
- Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie
- Götz George as Carl Jansen
- Maria Rohm as Ursula Wagner
- Ricardo Palacios as Sancho Lopez
- Loni von Friedl as Celeste
- Frances Khan as Carmen
- Tsai Chin as Lin Tang
- Isaura de Oliveira as Yuma
- Shirley Eaton as Black Widow
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