''The Castle of Fu Manchu'' (german: Die Folterkammer des Dr. Fu Man Chu, lit=The Torture Chamber of Dr. Fu Manchu, es, El castillo de Fu-Manchu) is a 1969 film and the fifth and final Dr. Fu Manchu film with Christopher Lee portraying the title character.

Plot

Supercriminal Dr. Fu Manchu plots to freeze the world's oceans with a diabolical new device. With his beautiful but evil daughter, Lin Tang, his army of

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s, and the help of the local crime organization led by Omar Pasha (whom Dr. Fu Manchu double-crosses), Dr. Fu Manchu takes over the governor's castle in Istanbul, which has a massive opium reserve, to control the largest opium port in

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, since the drug is an important ingredient for the fuel for his machine. Dr. Fu Manchu needs the help of an intelligent scientist with an ailing heart whom he has imprisoned. In order to keep the scientist alive, he kidnaps a doctor and his wife to give the scientist a heart transplant from one of his obedient servants. Opposing him from Britain's branch of

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are his nemeses, Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie.

Cast

* Christopher Lee as

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as Lin Tang *

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as Dr. Ingrid Koch *

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as Nayland Smith * Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie * Günther Stoll as Dr. Curt Kessler * Rosalba Neri as Lisa *

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as Omar Pasha * Werner Aprelat as Melnik Uncredited: *Mike Brendel as Pasha's Gunman *

Jesús Franco Jesús Franco Manera (12 May 1930 – 2 April 2013) was a Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor, known as a prolific director of low-budget exploitation and B-movies. In a career spanning from 1959 to 2013, he wrote, directed, produced, act ...

as Inspector Hamid * Herbert Fux as Governor * Osvaldo Genazzani as Sir Robert *

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as Feng * Gustavo Re as Professor Heracles *Gene Reyes as Hamid's Aide *Moisés Augusto Rocha as Fu's Henchman

Home media

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released the film on DVD under ''The Christopher Lee Collection'' in 2003.

In popular culture

In 1992, ''The Castle of Fu Manchu'' was featured in '' Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (Season 3, Episode 23). Towards the end, Joel comments that Roger Ebert liked the movie; however, in 1993 Ebert stated he had "never seen it." The episode marked the closest Joel and the Bots came to losing their sanity due to the poor quality of the movie.RiffTrax
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