In his autobiography, Lee said the benefit of making this movie was being able to golf in Barcelona. Tsai Chin, the Chinese actress, is the sister of Mr. Chow of restaurant fame.

This movie is crushing my soul, picking it up to stitch back together, then smashing it again with a sledgehammer.

I thought that these Fu Man Chu episodes had been permanently removed from KZfaq, so it's nice to know that this one is still up. I had forgotten just how surreal this film is to watch 😵‍💫

"Liner strikes iceberg, hundreds drown." "Good god, where!?" "In the water!"

The level of incomprehensiveness of this movie is incomprehensible.

Jesus Franco, director of The Bare Breasted Countess, Virgin Among the Zombies and Zombie Oasis plus a bunch of porn, directing Christopher Lee, who understandably hated his career, Sir Stanley Baker, hero of Zulu, and Dirk Bogarde, one of the best actors the UK has produced, in a racist Scotland Yard detective film with random inserts from other Franco movies thrown in. Classic.

Joel, Kevin, and Trace: the Golden Age of MST3K.

liner strikes iceberg. hundreds drown. good god, where? in the water.

I saw that episode when it first aired. I'm still in therapy.

12:35 A Babe Winkelman reference? Good lord! I used to watch his pattern fishing VHS over and over and over. You see Babe hauling in hog largemouth after hog largemouth then you pay a visit to ol Charlie back in the kitchen for a tasty fish recipe.

This is one of several movies directed by Jess Franco starring Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu, based on the novels of Sax Rohmer. As in the novels, Fu Manchu is opposed by Scotland Yard detective Nayland-Smith (played by former Robin Hood Richard Green), assisted by the Watson-like Dr. Petrie (played by former Watson Howard Marion Crawford). Rohmer was one of the most popular novelists of the early 20th century, comparable to Stephen King today, and Fu Manchu is his most famous creation, the archetypal "yellow peril" villain, spawning countless imitations, such as the Mandarin in Marvel Comics (Marvel actually acquired the rights to Rohmer's characters in the early 1970s, and added Fu Manchu to the Marvel universe as the father of Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu). Rohmer even created his own Fu Manchu knock-off, Sumuru, one of the first female supervillains in literature, and these Fu Manchu movies also spun off a couple of Sumuru movies, starring English actress Shirley Eaton (best known as the girl who is murdered by being painted gold in "Goldfinger") as Sumuru (though in the novels, Sumuru is Japanese). One of these, The Million Eyes of Sumuru, was riffed in Season Zero of MST3K (the KTMA episodes), and has since been riffed by Rifftrax.

Imagine the Saruman jokes Kevin could’ve made about Fu Manchu if this episode had come out after 2001. ;)

I’m overdue for a bag of decent pot, pizza and beer, and MST3K.

There's the rest and then there is MST3K!!!🙏👌👻❣️

Boy Fu Manchu is going to get a surprise that instead of the scientist he expected he actually captured Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law.

This movie has certain flaws.

8:50 No, it is not a Flemish merchant. It's more a sort of idealized version of the complete Renaissance Man...

8:40 An actual Chinese fire drill.

Deeeeeeep Hurting!

Is there even a protagonist in this movie? I feel like the entire film is just Fu Manchu wandering around his castle, monologuing to his prisoners and broadcasting vague threats to the world. They keep cutting to other characters every once in a while but none of them seem to ever do anything, it's just Fu Manchu 75% of the time and he's the only one getting anything done lmao

It kinda blows my mind that Joel was a pick for the Bill and Ted movies.

I picked up the Monty Python's Flying Circus reference..."that's a rather personal question?"

I liked this movie actually.

that painting at 1:11:08 is remarkable, I want one

so i call down to the desk clerk and said i had a leak in the sink. he said go ahead the customer is always right.🙃

We use children to grind our hops😂

COUNT DOOKU FU MANCHU

Fu Man Chu: "You're going to remain alive." Tom: "...and stoned off your flabby butt." Okay, that riff just f@%king slayed me 🤣

The only thing missing from this picture was actor Fezz Parker

Turn it off.. turn it off. *Turn it OFF!!* *_TURN IT OFFFF..!!_* (weeping of a broken man)

Okay. I have to start my time stamps again. 7:27 lol 7:41 🤣 7:52 💥🤣🤣🤣 13:44 🚲 13:55 Wow. 🤭 15:11 💥😆😆😆 18:51 🎤 25:48 🤣🤣🤣 30:03 🪰 37:19 what? 😆 1:04:21 le sigh 1:17:46 1:19:58 Joel seems genuinely annoyed.

i had no idea Christopher Lee was so multi cultural when it came to his acting

28:20 Trump's bathroom joke

I’m not sure what’s thicker: the tedium or the racism.

Yes, a burning cigarette beats all of the action!

Look at this shot.. they never should have let Shatner direct.. lol😂😂😂

so japan built a Titanic and it sank as well? what are the odds

Who did all the artwork? These drawings are both really good and really hilarious!

Who prefers Joel?

Those high budget thesis films never turn out good.

Ya know Burt Young has looked worse.. 😭😭😭

this is fu manchu. ...and im an alcoholic. hi fu!🙃

As of the typing of this comment, I am unable to find a plot summary to this movie, even on Wikipedia. This tells me how unintelligible it is.

If anyone can the plot of this movie, I'll give them a box of cookies.

1:21:58 - 1:22:07 When you defend a bad movie by saying Roger Evert liked it.

Wtf is going on in this movie? I have no idea

I thought shriners help people..lol🤣

1:17:06 but what about WHY is Nilan Smith?

I'm bored of these credits alreadyyyyy

I love the fact that this series was done in Minnesota!!

1:32:02 Hi... Kee... Ba!

13:18 Something’s up with your banter today … give it to us slower.

Something odd you-tubey happened. This is a 12 year old post and the comments only go about 6-7 months back.

Really?! Is that true?

Crow T Robot in the 1990's: please for the love of god stop having white actors play different ethnicity: ScarJo in the 2010's : I took that as a challenge

Almost as bad as Manos Hands of Fate!

Larry was much funnier than Frank ever was.