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.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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