| The Vengeance of Fu Manchu | |
| Director: | Jeremy Summers |
| Screenplay: | Peter Welbeck |
| Producer: | Harry Alan Towers |
| Starring: | Christopher Lee Douglas Wilmer Tsai Chin Maria Rohm Noel Trevarthen Howard Marion-Crawford |
| Cinematography: | John Von Kotze |
| Editing: | Allan Morrison |
| Studio: | Babasdave Films Constantin Film |
| Distributor: | Anglo-Amalgamated Warner-Pathé Constantin Film |
| Runtime: | 91 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom West Germany |
| Language: | English |
The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (also known as Sax Rohmer's the Vengeance of Fu Manchu and Die Rache Des Dr. Fu Man Chu) is a 1967 British crime thriller adventure film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Christopher Lee, Horst Frank, Douglas Wilmer and Tsai Chin.[1] It was the third British/West German Constantin Film co-production of the Dr. Fu Manchu series and the first to be filmed in Hong Kong at the renowned Shaw Brothers studio. It was generally released in the U.K. through Warner-Pathé (as the second half of a double feature with the Lindsay Shonteff film The Million Eyes of Sumuru) on 3 December 1967.[2]
Credits adapted from the booklet of the Powerhouse Films Blu-ray boxset The Fu Manchu Cycle: 1965-1969.[3]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Disappointingly, Fu Manchu's vengeance turns out to be a very tame affair after the period splendours of his earlier exploits. The ingredients are all here – boa constrictor plot, attractively photographed exteriors, and the Oriental villain and his sadistic daughter as venomous as ever – but somehow they fail to jell, and Jeremy Summers shows none of the inventiveness that Don Sharp brought to the first two films in this series. ... Christopher Lee and Tsai Chin are as impeccably sinister as before; but the hordes of blackpyjamaed henchmen are a curiously wooden lot, as though they had strayed on to the set from a Red Guard parade."[4]