A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu. Series of 15 shorts, each with a self-contained story.
Dr. Fu Manchu
Karamaneh
Dr. Petrie
Inspector Weymouth
06 Aug 1965
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.
08 Aug 1980
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
10 Aug 1929
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
01 Jan 1923
A mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers
01 Aug 1924
Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
07 Sep 1987
Tsai Chin, the daughter of the infamous Fu Manchu, controls a large empire of vice in her part of the Far East. She decides to kidnap and, through erotic chemical hypnosis, coerce all the members of a fabulously wealthy international rock band to sign over all their possessions to her empire. But an old enemy of Fu Manchu's begins stalking around her operation and threatens to destroy everything she has built.
24 Sep 1931
At her Chinese father's bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
06 May 1946
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04 Nov 1932
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
27 Nov 1943
Feature version of the 1940 Republic serial, about Fu Manchu's attempt to conquer Asia.
15 Mar 1940
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesi, Dr. Nayland Smith and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys. In 1943 the serial was edited together into a feature movie also called Drums of Fu Manchu.
02 May 1930
The sinister Dr. Fu Manchu returns to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
11 Oct 2001
This film follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
09 Oct 2001
His rough tactics in his native Auckland get Maori detective Tito Ihaka sent to Sydney while the scandal blows over. There he's teamed with urbane police media officer Kirsty Finn to review the unsolved murder of a supermodel. Their investigation lands them in political hot water, and when Ihaka's inquiries lead to a murder and further complaints, he thinks he's solved the case. But all he's done is create a ruthless and powerful enemy.
30 Jul 2004
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.