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Written by James M. Tate / 12/05/2025 / No comments / british , christopher lee , don sharp , franchise , fu manchu , harry alan towers , howard marion-crawford , jim norton , karin dor , nigel green , sixties , spy , tsai chin , walter rilla

CHRISTOPHER LEE VS NIGEL GREEN IN 'THE FACE OF FU MANCHU'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9tKnsvIlTu2T6B55VRCQbk4zNgyX5g7YdScNuXUhc7Qza63rk3w9MYIwBxQ6kkDWcIllEpJcgUisSTg-0HgCDOw0lQH5qbxpZrWshuDwYGpoY4CjSD6CjE6B6fGXV6dUG9flsxN_xwG0EHdEFlRsQDk2LriH3nChUsPq_9NeVIWB2OovSVyx4cz8JA-X/s828/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="828" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM9tKnsvIlTu2T6B55VRCQbk4zNgyX5g7YdScNuXUhc7Qza63rk3w9MYIwBxQ6kkDWcIllEpJcgUisSTg-0HgCDOw0lQH5qbxpZrWshuDwYGpoY4CjSD6CjE6B6fGXV6dUG9flsxN_xwG0EHdEFlRsQDk2LriH3nChUsPq_9NeVIWB2OovSVyx4cz8JA-X/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher Lee and Deborah DeLacey in THE FACE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1965 Rating: ***</td></tr></tbody></table>In <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2020/08/beatG.html">BEAT GIRL</a>, Christopher Lee played a sleazy nightclub owner where his even more slimy manager berated girls into becoming strippers... and here the always-intense Nigel Green is in opposite camps of Lee's titular FACE OF FU MANCHU: the one and only time as Sax Rohmer's Scotland Yard Inspector Nayland Smith... Later replaced by a more classy and dignified Douglas Wilmer, Green's the first and overall best lawman/adversary since he really seems to completely detest Asian mastermind/super-criminal Fu Manchu...

british, christopher lee, don sharp, franchise, fu manchu, harry alan towers, howard marion-crawford, jim norton, karin dor, nigel green, sixties, spy, tsai chin, walter rilla

CHRISTOPHER LEE VS NIGEL GREEN IN 'THE FACE OF FU MANCHU'

Christopher Lee and Deborah DeLacey in THE FACE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1965 Rating: *** In BEAT GIRL , Christopher Lee played a sleazy nightclub...

CHRISTOPHER LEE & MARIA ROHM 'THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDa2Gji-gPO_JqJnniTekzHx87_pKUbzAPsqfmbVppTXqYlRPWT8fs9PhYtLYJLsqOkk8l52txA0VsHBkmOuQd-5sdahnKbHHaTC1G1WVmkysOCRtiiq1PktSP9fbTViJoGQfqOq_CA2F13fOdxlX9YZLNtNqyonW-whu0-biNnRJTF6xVqGPCb7Qk2aJ/s1710/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1710" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDa2Gji-gPO_JqJnniTekzHx87_pKUbzAPsqfmbVppTXqYlRPWT8fs9PhYtLYJLsqOkk8l52txA0VsHBkmOuQd-5sdahnKbHHaTC1G1WVmkysOCRtiiq1PktSP9fbTViJoGQfqOq_CA2F13fOdxlX9YZLNtNqyonW-whu0-biNnRJTF6xVqGPCb7Qk2aJ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE VENGEANCE OF FU MANCHU Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>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...

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'

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 so...

CAROLE GRAY IN 'BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCS02BRD6t-mFsb_vBZMpSTPj97OiYVB-M17QiMEBiEIUMM7fwWrZ6aA3moXX8who7316s33L6yDEvZPG-5tzNitosQ4gMFuUXfq4CVNCLhtDI3kNE1YQqvC4Qz0pFlpGsuk3PgGVgCgt_nIE0QOSCt0cpot5bLUMMrvDB6_wpCsrG2oc-LsBO0-cOXCE8/s2222/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-18%20at%207.56.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="2222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCS02BRD6t-mFsb_vBZMpSTPj97OiYVB-M17QiMEBiEIUMM7fwWrZ6aA3moXX8who7316s33L6yDEvZPG-5tzNitosQ4gMFuUXfq4CVNCLhtDI3kNE1YQqvC4Qz0pFlpGsuk3PgGVgCgt_nIE0QOSCt0cpot5bLUMMrvDB6_wpCsrG2oc-LsBO0-cOXCE8/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-11-18%20at%207.56.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>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...

burt kwouk, carole gray, christopher lee, crime, douglas wilmer, francesca tu, fu manchu, harry alan towers, howard marion-crawford, marie versini, mystery, sally sheridan, sixties, thriller, tsai chin

CAROLE GRAY IN 'BRIDES OF FU MANCHU' WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE

Title: THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Year: 1966 Rating: ***1/2 Christopher Lee's version of author Sax Rohmer's nefarious Asian mastermind...

LEX BARKER WITH VÉRONIQUE VENDELL IN 'CODE 7, VICTIM 5'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5OtiCI30X-r-YSN2mSh09_FF4rmoYjw-X10uLh85wUkxAStnpJU82k7RkdpdM51XYFqi-GTJaPHrROLwHgNL1IZsTY4LtYs5MgUIy89Y2JwNjDMQMshL27DuREwvUtJ1iCES1tPGUudDKDQvbXw7poaoGgo4zhhJ_TB5hy8xAgzoHvcnYUoFZ71lCJ4T/s2068/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-24%20at%205.08.14%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="2068" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5OtiCI30X-r-YSN2mSh09_FF4rmoYjw-X10uLh85wUkxAStnpJU82k7RkdpdM51XYFqi-GTJaPHrROLwHgNL1IZsTY4LtYs5MgUIy89Y2JwNjDMQMshL27DuREwvUtJ1iCES1tPGUudDKDQvbXw7poaoGgo4zhhJ_TB5hy8xAgzoHvcnYUoFZ71lCJ4T/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202024-05-24%20at%205.08.14%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Title: CODE 7, VICTIM 5 Alternate Title: VICTIM FIVE Year: 1964 Rating: ***1/2</td></tr></tbody></table>With a title that sounds more like the final score of a computer corporation's soccer match than a spy movie, CODE 7, VICTIM 5 takes the then-Sean Connery/James Bond blueprint into b-movie territory under flowing direction from Robert Lynn but more importantly with creatively maneuvered and vibrantly colored cinematography by future legendary auteur Nicolas Roeg, providing former Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller's  replacement) actor Lex Barker on a case to discover who murdered a millionaire's servant at a bizarre parade... But Barker's character Steve Martin (also Raymond Burr's name in GODZILLA before THE JERK comic became famous) is more busy with two lovely dames, equally alluring in their own right while following neo-noir cinema tropes...