The 'Yellow Peril' strikes again

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Christopher Lee returns as the evil oriental genius and symbol of the yellow peril Fu Manchu and he's got a can't miss scheme now. Lee has developed
a formula for freezing large quantities of water and he tries it out in the tropical Caribbean when a cruise ship hits an iceberg and goes down far quicker than the Titanic.

Of course Scotland Yard puts their best Fu Manchu expert on the job Sir Dennis
Nayland Smith played by Richard Greene making his second appearance in the part. Greene was getting a bit long in the tooth for su7ch derring do. A younger player should have carried the action scenes.

Anyway Lee's scheme hinges on getting a sick scientist with a bad heart to help
and in the course of the film a surgical procedure that would be pioneered inm real life and very soon. Life imitating heart.

This film is kind of like the Japanese monster flicks only not half the fun of seeing those monsters making Japan a continual candidate for urban renewal.
As for Fu Manchu he's like a Batman villain ho is down, but never out. He always returns with a new scheme.

The stories of Sax Rohmer are from a racist past where a great fear among occidentals was the 'yellow peril' where the great populations of the east only
needed a charismatic leader to rise and takeover. Today the stories and films
made therein should be handled with care.

score 3/10

bkoganbing 17 February 2021

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6606423/