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Released
1965 · FILM

The Face of Fu Manchu

“Obey Fu Manchu Or Every Living Thing Will Die!”

Directed by
Don Sharp
Written by
Harry Alan Towers
Runtime
96 min
ActionCrimeDrama

Synopsis

Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John TrumperShot by Ernest StewardScored by Christopher Whelen

Box Office

1965 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$1.3M

Budget$700K
Worldwide gross$1.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • El Regreso de Fu-Manchúde
  • Fu Manchu – A.S. 3 operazione dragode
  • Fu Manchu – kauhun mestaride
  • Fu Manchu – skräckens mästarede
  • Fu Manchu 1de
  • Fu Manciu: operazione Tigrede
  • Ich, Dr. Fu Man Chude
  • Le Masque de Fu-Manchude
  • The Mask of Fu Manchude
  • El regreso de Fu-Manchúes
  • Le Masque de Fu-Manchufr
  • Fu Manchu A.S.3 - Operazione tigreit

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