Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969) on Netflix
Fu Manchu's machine would freeze the world's oceans, and opium is its fuel. He seizes a castle in Istanbul, and Interpol's Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie oppose him.
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Plot summary
The world's oceans are Fu Manchu's target, and a machine of his own design is built to freeze them. A fuel that uses opium powers it, and his daughter Lin Tang, an army of dacoits and a local crime organization under Omar Pasha help him take the governor's castle in Istanbul and its large store of opium, which commands the port of Anatolia. The machine also depends on a captive scientist with a failing heart, and a doctor and the doctor's wife are seized to keep that man alive. Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie of Interpol's British branch oppose him.
Cast
- Werner Abrolatas Melnik (as Werner Aprelat)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- In 1992, The Castle of Fu Manchu was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, in the show's third season as Episode 23.
- In that Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, Joel Robinson comments that Roger Ebert liked the movie, but in 1993 Ebert stated he had never seen it.
