The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
– Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing ..
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.
08 Aug 1980
English
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Piers Haggard, Richard Quine, Peter Sellers
Rudy Dochtermann (screenplay), Jim Moloney (screenplay), Sax Rohmer (novel)
Peter Sellers, Helen Mirren, David Tomlinson, Sid Caesar
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. Nayland suspects Fu will kidnap the king and queen and demand the George V diamond as ransom. Scotland Yard recruits Alice Rage to stand-in for the queen. Fu nabs the "fake" queen; Rage becomes enamored of Fu and aids him in his quest for the George V diamond.
2 wins & 3 nominations.
Warner Bros.