I Watch Films: The Vengeance Of Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu is believed dead (again) but isn’t (again). He retreats to his home province of Gansu and blows up the mountain passes, isolating it from the outside world. He then proceeds to plot his vengeance against Nayland Smith. He kidnaps a doctor and threatens his daughter until he changes the face of a hypnotised man to look like Nayland Smith.
Nayland Smith is busy trying to organise Interpol, because crime is international now. The FBI bloke Weston has worrying news, that the American underworld has sent an emissary out from San Francisco to offer leadership of American crime to... a mysterious someone. Nayland Smith calls his old friend Inspector Ramos of the Shanghai International Police to track him. Then he goes on holiday to Ireland, is kidnapped and replaced by his doppelganger who promptly murders Nayland Smith’s servant Jasmin. Fu Manchu intends to kill Nayland Smith at the same time as the doppelganger is hanged, having not only killed Nayland Smith but destroyed his reputation.
Ramos and Weston are on the trail however, and discovering that the crime emissary is heading for Gansu, the home province of Fu Manchu, start to wonder if, just possibly, this weirdness might be... but surely not... he’s dead after all...
Watch This: For a action-packed bonkers period thriller
Don’t Watch This: It’s not much more racist or sexist than most films of the period, and much less than the books, but it has it’s moments
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