The Blood of Fu Manchu

The Blood of Fu Manchu, also known as Fu Manchu and the Kiss of Death, Kiss of Death, Kiss and Kill and Against All Odds, is a 1968 British adventure crime film directed by Jesus Franco, based on the fictional Asian villain Fu Manchu created by Sax Rohmer. It was the fourth film in a series, and was preceded by The Vengeance of Fu Manchu. The Castle of Fu Manchu followed in 1969.

Contents

• Plot
• Cast
• References

It was produced by Harry Alan Towers for Udastex Films. It starred Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu, Richard Greene as Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith, and Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie. The movie was filmed in Spain and Brazil. Shirley Eaton appears in a scene she claimed she was never paid for; apparently the director Jesus Franco inserted some footage of her from another of her films (The Girl from Rio, 1968) into the Fu Manchu movie without telling her. She only found out years later that she was in a Fu Manchu film.

Plot

In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu has discovered a deadly poison in a "lost city" in the Amazonian jungle that affects only men. Women can become carriers of the "kiss of death" by being bitten by venomous snakes. The poison causes blindness and ultimately followed six weeks later by death. Using mind control, he aims the women at Nayland Smith and other key people with political influence. This prevents them from interfering with his own ambitions to prepare millions of "doses" and spread them around the world's major cities and capitals in a plan to gain world domination.

Cast

Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu

Richard Greene as Nayland Smith

Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie

Götz George as Carl Jansen

Maria Rohm as Ursula Wagner

Ricardo Palacios as Sancho Lopez

Loni von Friedl as Celeste

Frances Khan as Carmen

Tsai Chin as Lin Tang

Isaura de Oliveira as Yuma

Shirley Eaton as Black Widow