The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
Comedy · Horror · Crime
Overview
Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
Cast
- Peter Sellers as Fu Manchu / Nayland Smith
- Helen Mirren as Alice Rage
- David Tomlinson as Sir Roger Avery
- Sid Caesar as Joe Capone
- Simon Williams as Robert Townsend
- Steve Franken as Peter Williams
- Stratford Johns as Ismail
- John Le Mesurier as Perkins
- John Sharp as Sir Thuud
- Clément Harari as Dr. Wretch