The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929)

★ 5.6 1h 22m IMDb

A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.

The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu

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Warner Oland
Warner Oland as Dr. Fu Manchu Died 1938 · Nyby, Västerbottens län, Sweden From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund, October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-Ame...
Neil Hamilton
Neil Hamilton as Dr. Jack Petrie Died 1984 · Lynn, Massachusetts, USA Neil Hamilton (born James Neil Hamilton; September 9, 1899 - September 24, 1984) was an American screen, stage, and television actor. During the 1920s and 1930s he was a popular leading man in films....
Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur as Lia Eltham Died 1991 · Plattsburgh, New York, USA Jean Arthur (born Gladys Georgianna Greene; October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress celebrated as one of the defining screen personalities of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Known for her qu...
O. P. Heggie
O. P. Heggie as Inspector Nayland Smith Died 1936 · Angaston, South Australia, Australia Oliver Peters Heggie, known as O. P. Heggie, was an Australian-born stage and screen actor, in the United States from 1901..
William Austin
William Austin as Sylvester Wadsworth Died 1975 · Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana] From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Austin  (12 June 1884 – 15 June 1975) was a British character actor who was born on a sugar plantation in Georgetown in British Guiana (now Guyana). On...
Claude King
Claude King as Sir John Petrie Died 1941 · Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK Claude King was an English stage and screen actor, in films from 1912 to 1941..

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 6/10 Aug 01, 2024
The eponymous Chinese gentlemen is sure that his house will be safe during the famous Boxer revolution that attempted to drive the foreign devils from their country at the start of the 20th century. Reduced to just the British legation, though, the Europeans fight back and his home is accidentally struck resulting in a devastating tragedy. This kindly gent now swears vengeance on those who instigated those killings and over a period of years, he narrows down his dwindling list of targets to just the London-based "Petrie" family. Luckily, Scotland Yard's finest - "Insp. Nayland Smith" (O.P. Heggie) is on the case to try and stop the body count from mounting - but is he a match for the fiendishly clever "Fu Manchu" (Warner Oland)? It's probably about twenty minutes too long this - and most of that could be cut from the rather meandering denouement; but Oland makes for quite an entertainingly vengeful villain and Heggie turns in a decent effort too as the shrewd detective. Otherwise, the lighting needed extra wattage and the dialogue maybe a little less verbiage as the story takes us down loads of secret passages and introduces us to the unforgiving ancestors. I actually had some sympathy with the baddies all along here and quite enjoyed this mystically charged thriller.

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