Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786300271753 Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6300271757 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 01, 1998 Running Time: 108 minutes Sales Rank: 11047 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 08, 1980
Description: Best known for his role as the 'Pink Panther'; this was Peter Sellers last film. Sellers plays two roles - the evil Fu Manchu and his nemesis, Scotland Yard's Nayland Smith. Manchu is celebrating his 168th birthday when one of his assistants spills the last of his anti-aging potion. He sends his assistants out to gather the materials needed to make more potion - including the Star of Leningrad Diamond. This alerts the authorities who set up a plan to get Manchu to kidnap a decoy Queen of England.
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Rating: - The End of a Career and a Life
I'm a little surprised that there are a few good reviews for this film on here.
I saw it in a theatre shortly after the death of Peter Sellers in 1980 and was saddened to think this was his last film. It was spectacularly unfunny and the last we would ever see of him (although I liked the rejuvenated Fu Manchu appearing in Elvis regalia at the climax).
According to the two biographies I've read of him (THE LIFE & DEATH OF PETER SELLERS and MR. STRANGELOVE), the production of FU MANCHU was pure chaos.
If you haven't seen this film, don't think you're discovering a ... Read More
Rating: - PLEASE, PLEASE PUT ON DVD
This is a great movie!!! Why is it no one will put it on DVD???!!! The Pink Panther series is on DVD why not this one???!!!
Rating: - DVD PLEASE !!!
THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE FROM OUR VERY TALENTED BORN ACTOR.
THIS MOVIE NEEDS TO BE EDITED IN DVD PLEASE !!!
Rating: - OH MY GOSH!
this is unbelivabley MY GRANDFATHER!!!!!!!!! amaxzing isn't it, but sometime he scares me, this is an amazing film, I am not a bads person but someitme i have bad plots as well, this film has the best camera affect, best makeup (look at manchus face, hes screaming "damn im sexy"), you cant deny his amazing looks wich i picked up frum him, AMASING!
Rating: - a diabolically criminally funny spoof
THE FIENDISH PLOT OF DR. FU MANCHU [hereinafter "Fu"] is a diabolically, criminally funny spoof of the preceding Fu villain movies. The opening scene was foretelling. Sellers, as a vintage Fu, is celebrating his 168th birthday. His crowd of sinister lackeys are singing "Happy Birthday." Fu calls for his life sustaining elixer to have a swig which would carry him over for another year. The elixer is brought into the chamber by an extremely familiar servant. This servant . . . uh, er let's call him Kato for want of a better name . . . well his robe catches fire and he douses the flame with all of ... Read More
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