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The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu - The Prisoner of Dr. Fu Manchu
episode 1
USA 1956
produced by
Republic Pictures (Studio City Television/Hollywood Television Service)
directed by Franklin Adreon
starring Glen Gordon, Lester Matthews, Clark Howat, Carla Balenda, Laurette Luez, John George, Leonard Strong, Morris Ankrum, Keith Richards (II), Steven Geray, Grandon Rhodes, Edward Colmans, Victor Sen Yung, Sam Harris Jack Perrin
written by Barry Shipman, based on characters by Sax Rohmer
TV-series
Fu Manchu, Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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At the Conference of Nations, Professor Hugh Yan (Leonard
Strong) is one of the key delegates to ever-lasting world peace, as he is
the link between the USA - who wants to make some sort of super radiation
shield available to all nations - and Oriental warlords. World peace is
nothing Dr Fu Manchu (Glen Gordon) could live with, so he has nurse Betty
(Carla Balenda), his arch enemy Nayland Smith's (Lester Matthews)
assistand Dr Petrie's (Clark Howat) personal assistant, abducted and
hypnotizes her into poisoning the professor. But since she is only a woman
(Fu Manchu's words, not mine), Betty fails, and so Fu Manchu has the
professor abducted and one of his own men take his place at the
conference, where he's supposed to take off with the radiation shield,
while all the others are to be killed by poisonous gasses. And Nayland
Smith calls the fake Professor Hugh Yan's bluff only in the very last
moment ... The first and one of the more exciting episodes of Republic's
Fu Manchu-television series. From today's point of view one
can't help but feel bemused (or outraged) by the episode's inherent sexist
remarks and its naive views on the benefits of radiation as well as the wild
east - now those are things that are at least worth a chuckle ... at
least if you are not of the politically correct denomination.
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