Written by James M. Tate / 11/18/2025 / No comments / christopher lee , douglas wilmer , eddie byrne , fu manchu , harry alan towers , horst frank , howard marion-crawford , maria rohm , noel trevarthen , sixties , suzanne roquette , thriller , tsai chin
CHRISTOPHER LEE & MARIA ROHM 'THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU'
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| Title: THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 |
The last of the Christopher Lee as FU MANCHU movies from the 1960's where sophisticated Brit Douglas Wilmer plays the titular Asian kingpin's main Scotland Yard adversary Nayland Smith, and he gets to work double-time here, kind of...
But when he's the surgically-altered clone of himself, who murders his lovely Asian secretary, he has hardly any dialogue or expression... staring forward with a vacantly gaunt expression, resembling Peter Sellers if he were deadpan without the humor... not even relying on his own Doctor Watson in sidekick Petrie (who narrates the Sax Rohmer source novels) played by an affable Howard Marion-Crawford...
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
One of three regular cast members appearing in all five movies including an always sinister-yet-subdued Lee and his formidable Asian daughter Tsai Chin, hypnotizing a doctor to perform the face-altering surgery while also kidnapping his classy daughter: yet lovely ingenue Suzanne Roquette really only stands around within Fu's hidden fortress...
Eclipsed by the vulnerable blonde moll of German scoundrel Horst Frank (seeming the chief villain in his own story)... as scene-stealing Maria Rohm guides the audience through smoky taverns, cutthroat backrooms and rural exotic exteriors as VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU is said to be the last of the decently budgeted Fu Manchu franchise.
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU with Horst Frank |
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Suzanne Roquette in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin and Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Mona Chong as Jasmine in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin and Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU with Horst Frank |
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| Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU with Noel Trevarthen |
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| Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin and Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Suzanne Roquette and Wolfgang Kieling in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Douglas Wilmer in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Suzanne Roquette and Wolfgang Kieling with Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Eddie Byrne and Horst Frank in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| From THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin and Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin and Christopher Lee in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Tsai Chin in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Suzanne Roquette in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| Horst Frank with Maria Rohm in THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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| From THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU |
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