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| Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 |
Christopher Lee's version of author Sax Rohmer's nefarious Asian mastermind FU MANCHU makes like a James Bond villain that Lee would become in the next decade... herein seeking to take over the world by kidnapping the daughters of scientists who will help build the weapon to do so...
It's a shame that this plot-line's given away up front, in every online and video-box description, because the film leads the audience, and their classy Scotland Yard hero Nayland Smith (Douglas Wilmer), into a mystery-genre investigation as to why gorgeous gals Carole Gray and Marie Versini have become the least brain-washed of a dozen of Manchu's titular scantily-clad background BRIDES...
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
All living/locked inside a cavernous dungeon contrasting to officious expository-spouting boardrooms as brunette/full-lipped British scream-queen Gray... following CURSE OF THE FLY, DEVILS OF DARKNESS and ISLAND OF TERROR... has her most energetic role as a knife-wielding firebrand, who both saves lives and takes them, elegantly contrasting with Versini's more vulnerably and chaste, sophisticated French ingenue...
Meanwhile the already legendary Hammer antagonist Christopher Lee speaks very little... as the most work's done by his primary female henchman in another Bond-actor, Asian beauty Tsai Chin, hypnotizing the girls with a touch of her hands in an even more hands-on role than the titular boss: making BRIDES OF FU MANCHU matter most when the good or bad vixens are on screen.
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray and Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee, Carole Gray and Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee, Carole Gray and Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Sally Sheridan and Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Sally Sheridan and Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU with Christopher Lee
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU with Christopher Lee |
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| Christopher Lee and Burt Kwouk in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee and Burt Kwouk in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| From THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray and Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU with Salmaan Peerzada
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray and Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray and Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray and Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray and Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Yvonne Ekmann and Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee, Carole Gray and Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee and Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Douglas Wilmer in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray and Marie Versini in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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| Carole Gray in THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU |
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