The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

"BEWARE! See this movie - An hour later you'll want to see it again!"

Aug 8 1980 PG 1h 40m
Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

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.

Plot

Fu Manchu's (Peter Sellers') 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, D.C. The F.B.I. sends Agents Joe Capone (Sid Caesar) and Pete Williams (Steve Franken) to England to confer with Sir Dennis Nayland Smith (Peter Sellers), an expert on Fu. Nayland suspects Fu will kidnap King George V (Rene Aranda) and Queen Mary (Grace Coyle) and demand the George V diamond as ransom. Scotland Yard recruits Alice Rage (Dame Helen Mirren) 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.

Written by

Rudy Dochtermann, Jim Moloney, Sax Rohmer

Directed by

Piers Haggard, Peter Sellers

Production Countries

United States of America, United Kingdom

Production Companies

Playboy Enterprises

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
2,471
Average Rating
4.9 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA