The Blood of Fu Manchu
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The Blood of Fu Manchu is a 1968 British adventure crime film based on the fictional Asian villain Fu Manchu, created by Sax Rohmer. It was the fourth film in a series, and was preceded by The Vengeance of Fu Manchu. The Castle of Fu Manchu followed in 1969. It was produced by Harry Alan Towers for Udastex Films. It starred Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu, and Richard Greene as Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith. The movie was filmed in Spain and Brazil.
Plot
In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu has discovered a deadly poison in a "lost city" in the Amazonian jungle that affects only men. Women can become carriers of the "kiss of death" by being bitten by venomous snakes. The poison causes blindness, followed 6 weeks later by death. Using mind control, he aims the women at Nayland Smith and others to prevent them from interferring with his plan to prepare millions of "doses" and spread them around the world's major cities in a plot to control the world.
