Sequel to The Face of Fu Machu is similarly pacey courtesy of some energetic Don Sharp direction and also starts with a wham – Fu Manchu and his sidekick daughter arrange for a hypnotized girl to girl drop a kidnap victim in a pool of snakes.
Fu Manchu is back and looking for world domination, this time courtesy of a death ray. He’s kidnapping daughters of scientists to help him.
I found it a bit confusing to be honest, with lots of different people chasing henchmen, and hechmen trying to kidnap people – heroes and villains tended to look alike (Fu Manchu spends most of his time in his cave, a different actor plays Neyland Smith). I lost track of who was who - the actors needed to wear different costumes or have different coloured hair or something. Flies along, spiffing climax.
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