The Brides of Fu Manchu

Better dead than wed!

Fu Manchu kidnaps the daughters of prominent scientists to force their fathers into building a deadly weapon that will help him achieve world domination. As panic spreads, Nayland Smith races across Europe to rescue the women and stop the villain’s diabolical plan. This globe-trotting pulp adventure blends high-stakes suspense, exotic intrigue, and classic good-versus-evil thrills.

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  After the success of The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) … Sharp’s follow-up adopts a similarly freewheeling approach but the result is far less successful. The hopelessly convoluted plot, built around Fu Manchu’s kidnapping of a series of young women in order to blackmail the influential males connected with them, proved too badly constructed to allow the effectively staged setpieces to develop, making the movie disintegrate into a great many banal scenes and a few brief hallucinatory moments.