The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Frankenstein of the Orient!
Directed by Charles Brabin
Produced by Cosmopolitan Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
A pulpy 1930s adventure-horror built on exotic menace and world-domination schemes, where a sinister villain pursues ancient relics amid torture, murder, and racial anxieties.
The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.
Clusters
Essence
Ensemble
Boris Karloff
Dr. Fu Manchu
Lewis Stone
Nyland Smith
Karen Morley
Sheila Barton
Charles Starrett
Terence Granville
Myrna Loy
Fah Lo See
Jean Hersholt
Von Berg
Lawrence Grant
Sir Lionel Barton
David Torrence
McLeod
C. Montague Shaw
Curator Dr. Fairgyle - British Museum Official (uncredited)
Steve Clemente
Knife Thrower (uncredited)
Allen Jung
Coolie (uncredited)
Chris-Pin Martin
Potentate (uncredited)
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