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The Blood of Fu Manchu | Year: 1969 Classification: Horror Directed: - Jesus Franco Actors/Actresses: - Christopher Lee - Götz George - Richard Greene - Howard Marion-Crawford Beast movie eber made I agree! I aagree with teh peopl who say this is the greatess mobie from HAMMER studio ever made. SO I think it should be shown in teatres acros the countrie of american and canadas and also oversea and all of the world. Maybi they say, in 200 years from the movie creation he will arise from teh pot of carmalloop. So i tink everyone chould see tihs one it has my granpop in it the grate FU Manchu, I love amazon for selling this amasing products, tank you amason, you make my dream come true. Keep reeching for teh skies! Yummy but Silly Any film with Christopher Lee is worth watching and this one also has naked girls, snakes, bandits, posion kisses and the lovely Brazilian countryside. Sure it is inferior to the first three Fu Manchu movies (which have yet to achieve DVD immortality) but it is a beautifully produced edition by Blue Underground of a less than good movie with excellent technical quality and a fun documentary.<BR>Now let's get the first three on DVD - quick!! Not quite the pit of despair, but close... The entry of Jess Franco to Harry Alan Towers' Fu Manchu series signalled the beginning of the end. Fast, cheap and amazingly bad, Franco is one of the few directors who could make Michael Winner look like Stanley Kubrick by comparison. After all, it takes denial on an Olympian scale to have David De Keyser dub two separate characters IN THE SAME SCENE or to include black and white stock footage from 'A Night to Remember' in a colour film and think that if you tint it blue no-one will notice... 'The Blood of Fu Manchu' is marginally the better of his two Fus, but its still a major step down for the Christopher Lee series. Fully restored, but really no better for it, the presentation is enough reason for disappointed Fu Fans to consider adding it to their collection. The print is the best you're likely to see (the film is marginally better shot than most of Franco's efforts) and the extras package is more entertaining than the film (although the same can be said of mending a faulty waste-disposal). The first of a two-part documentary gives a brief background to the series with some candid observations from Tsai Chin and Shirley Eaton, as well as a somewhat more relaxed than usual Christopher Lee, countering Franco's unwarranted enthusiasm; one of the two trailers actually makes the film look good (quite an achievement); and the notes on the Fu Manchu novels are enlightening. If only we could get this kind of presentation on the highly enjoyable initial entry 'The Face of Fu Manchu' or its two immediate sequels 'The Brides of Fu Manchu' and 'The Vengeance of Fu Manchu' - they may not be masterpieces, but they're a lot more fun than this FuBar film. Buy The Blood Of Fu Manchu at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on The Blood Of Fu Manchu Search with the Priority Search Engine on The Blood Of Fu Manchu This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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