Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Movie review - “The Return of Fu Manchu” (1930) **

A real sequel – it has the same lead players in the same roles and picks up where the first film left off. Jean Arthur is going to marry Neil Hamilton with Neyland Smith fondly watching but it turns out Fu Manchu wasn’t dead after all. He kidnaps Arthur and plots some unexciting revenge – it feels stagey, a lot of the action with Fu Manchu holed up in a hosue. There are a few neat trap doors but it isn’t as good as the original and that wasn’t that good.

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