The Million Eyes of Su-Muru
Sumuru, die Tochter des Satans / The 1000 Exes of Su-Muru / The Slaves of Sumuru / Sumuru

UK 1967
produced by
Harry Alan Towers for Sumuru Films
directed by Lindsay Shonteff
starring Frankie Avalon, George Nader, Shirley Eaton, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Klaus Kinski, Patti Chandler, Salli Sachse, Ursula Rank, Krista Nell, Maria Rohm, Paul Chang, Essie Huang, Jon Fong, Denise Davreux, Mary Cheng, Jill Hamilton, Lisa Gray, Christine Luk, Margaret Cheung, Louise Lee
screenplay by Kevin Kavanagh, Harry Alan Towers (as Peter Welbeck), based on the story by Sax Rohmer, music by John Scott

Sumuru

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Female supervillain Sumuru (Shirley Eaton) sends out her girls to get hold of some of the most powerful men of earth - but somehow, she failed to get her hands on Boong (Klaus Kinski), president of some banana republic or other ... mainly because he changes his lovers like he changes his underwear. However, the Secret Service has gotten wind of Sumuru's plans, so Sir Anthony (Wilfrid Hyde-White) sends CIA-agent (!) West (George Nader) along with playboy Carter (Frankie Avalon) to Hong Kong to take care of the business.

Once in Hong Kong, West seemingly can't help it but to be captured by Sumuru's girls immediately, but invariably it's either the effect of his charms on Sumuru's girls (who tend to fall in love with him in a split second) or Carter to bail him out. Finally though, Sumuru has him dragged into her headquarters ... and falls for him at least a bit - but not enough to forget her plans: She wants to make him Boong's chief of security, so he can smuggle Helga (Maria Rohm) into his residence to kill him. The plan almost works, but Helga has of course fallen for West, so she can't do Sumuru's bidding no more.

To vent her frustration over her failed plan, Sumuru has West tortured and plans to kill him, but Helga has managed to hook up with Carter, and of course she gives him the location of Sumuru's secret headquarters ... well, what can I say, everything ends happily for the good guys - but Sumuru might have escaped to return in a sequel.

After Harry Alan Towers experienced quite some success with the Fu Manchu-series, it was perhaps inevitable that he tried his hands on Sax Rohmer's Sumuru as well - after all, the premise was very similar, and quite in tune with the wave of Eurospy movies produced back in the day in the wake of the unequalled success of the James Bond-series of films - and you simply cannot deny the influence of the James Bond-movies on this one, what with the exotic locations, sexy girls in brief outfits, George Nader trying to duplicate 007's kind of cool, and of course Goldfinger's Shirley Eaton in a lead role. However, at times the movie tries to outdo James Bond when it tries to develop a farce-like atmosphere - which is of course commendable in theory ... on film though, it becomes a bit heavy-handed, especially since the thing is not especially well-written and rather poor on the joke-side of things.

In all, it's a film every Eurospy-fan will of course want to see because of its weird 60's flair coupled with the genre-immanent inadequacies - it's just not really a good film.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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