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Il castello di Fu Manchu

Titolo originale: The Castle of Fu Manchu
  • 1969
  • PG
  • 1h 32min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
2,9/10
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LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Rosalba Neri and Günther Stoll in Il castello di Fu Manchu (1969)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaFu Manchu plans to freeze the world's oceans. Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie of Scotland Yard are the only ones capable of stopping him.Fu Manchu plans to freeze the world's oceans. Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie of Scotland Yard are the only ones capable of stopping him.Fu Manchu plans to freeze the world's oceans. Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie of Scotland Yard are the only ones capable of stopping him.

  • Regia
    • Jesús Franco
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Sax Rohmer
    • Harry Alan Towers
    • Jaime Jesús Balcázar
  • Star
    • Christopher Lee
    • Richard Greene
    • Howard Marion-Crawford
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    2,9/10
    2442
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Jesús Franco
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Sax Rohmer
      • Harry Alan Towers
      • Jaime Jesús Balcázar
    • Star
      • Christopher Lee
      • Richard Greene
      • Howard Marion-Crawford
    • 54Recensioni degli utenti
    • 38Recensioni della critica
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    Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    • Fu Manchu
    Richard Greene
    Richard Greene
    • Nayland Smith
    Howard Marion-Crawford
    Howard Marion-Crawford
    • Dr. Petrie
    • (as Howard Marion Crawford)
    Günther Stoll
    Günther Stoll
    • Dr. Curt Kessler
    • (as Gunther Stoll)
    Rosalba Neri
    Rosalba Neri
    • Lisa
    Maria Perschy
    Maria Perschy
    • Marie…
    José Manuel Martín
    José Manuel Martín
    • Omar Pasha
    • (as Jose Manuel Martin)
    Werner Abrolat
    • Melnik
    • (as Werner Aprelat)
    Tsai Chin
    Tsai Chin
    • Lin Tang
    Stanley Baker
    Stanley Baker
    • Running Man
    • (filmato d'archivio)
    Dirk Bogarde
    Dirk Bogarde
    • Running Man
    • (filmato d'archivio)
    Lami Ates
    • Hamid's Assistant
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Mike Brendel
    • Omar Pasha's Gunman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    David de Keyser
    David de Keyser
    • Omar Pasha and others
    • (voce)
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Jesús Franco
    Jesús Franco
    • Inspector Hamid
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Herbert Fux
    Herbert Fux
    • Governer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Ihsan Gedik
    Ihsan Gedik
    • Fu Manchu Henchman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Osvaldo Genazzani
    Osvaldo Genazzani
    • Sir Robert
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Jesús Franco
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Sax Rohmer
      • Harry Alan Towers
      • Jaime Jesús Balcázar
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    Recensioni degli utenti54

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    Michael_Elliott

    The Fifth and Final of the Series

    Castle of FuManchu, The (1968)

    * 1/2 (out of 4)

    The fifth and final film in Christopher Lee's FuManchu series is considered by many to be the worst but I personally found it so bad that I was able to have a little fun with it. The film has FuManchu (Lee) once again trying to take over the world and by now you might be asking when the guy is just going to give up and go home. Anyway, this time he plans on freezing all the oceans in the world so he kidnaps a doctor to perform an operation on the one man who knows how to do such a thing. THE CASTLE OF FUMANCHU isn't a good movie so you shouldn't go into the film expecting anything other that pure silliness. There's no question this is a bad movie but thankfully it's bad enough to be mildly entertaining but I'm sure most people will be smart enough to hit the eject button by the thirty-minute mark. Once again Lee appears to have only enough energy to cash a paycheck as he's obviously not too thrilled about doing this picture. As in the previous film, Lee pretty much just sleepwalks through the film and offers up very little energy. The supporting cast includes Gunther Stoll playing the doctor, Jose Manuel Martin as an opium dealer and cult favorite Rosalba Neri playing an assassin. These supporting players are certainly one of the few good things in the film. The film has a bigger budget than most Franco pictures but that's not saying too much because we still get all sorts of cheapness including some stock footage from the Titanic picture A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, which certainly doesn't mix well with any of the new footage. The film does have some decent cinematography but there's just not enough here to make it worth viewing. Fans of Lee, Franco or FuManchu are bound to be disappointed with this film, which turned out to be the last in the series.
    3ma-cortes

    Fu Manchu -Christopher Lee's last entry lousily directed by Jess Frank or Jesus Franco

    Final outing in Fu Manchu-Christopher Lee series set in Turkey and based on Sax Rohmer's characters . Christopher Lee returns in this fifth chapter as the evil genius Fu Manchu who doesn't give up easily, and is out to destroy world or bent on conquering it . This time has designed a fantastic gadget to fleece water on oceans and he threatens world leaders by forcing a ransom . The baddies are Jose Luis Martin a Spanish actor usually playing the villain-role in Spaghetti Western and Christopher Lee, as always acting as a magnificent evil-doer . Nayland Smith-Richard Greene his perennial adversary and arch-nemesis takes the center of attention when is assigned the dangerous mission . Howard Marion Crawford of Britain's Home Office is the assistant of Nayland Smith , a Watson-alike . And of course, the Fu Manchu's daughter , habitually played by T Sai Chin, acting perfectly as a nasty murderous.

    At the film there are action, adventures, thrills, sadism and exotic outdoors filmed in Estudios Cinematográficos Balcázar (Spanish producers are Alfonso and Jaime Jesus Balcazar), Esplugues De Llobregat, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain (studio), Istanbul, Turkey and Parque Güell, Parque De Ciutdadella , Barcelona , Cataluña , Spain.

    Fifth in Christopher Lee's Manchu series several pegs below his predecessors ; it is a bizarre blending of adventures, thriller and action with low budget . This exciting picture is full of Chinese killers , British adventurers, and nasty drug dealers . Weak performance by Richard Greene working below capabilities as Nyland Smith who in former episodes was best interpreted by Nigel Green , and Douglas Wilmer . The villain T Sai Chin stand out as Fu Manchu's daughter named Li Tang and the smuggler Jose Luis Martin overacting as an ominous bandit , furthermore turns up Burt Kwouk, Pink Panther-Sellers series's usual , in a brief appearance . The beautiful girls are two Eurotrash Goddeses as Maria Perschy and Rosalba Neri . This is the second collaboration between Jesus Franco and the producer Harry Alan Towers ( producer of the Fu Manchu's five movies ) and to be continued in several films . Well photographed by Manuel Merino , being recently fine remastering , though previous versions were awfully photographed.

    Most critics felt this outing was one of the weakest entries along with ¨The blood of Fu Manchu¨ also directed by Jess Frank with similar casting , plenty of stock-shots , zooms and a Z-series style . The best installments were ¨Face of Fu Manchu(1965, Don Sharp)¨, and ¨Brides of Fu Manch( 1966, Don Sharp)¨ and the inferior ¨Vengeance of Fu Manchu(1967) . Only for completist , the outcome is one of the worst Fu Manchu movie ever made . Rating : Bottom of barrel , below average .
    5Stevieboy666

    It really isn't that bad, I'm surprised by the current 2.9/10 score

    Evil Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) has devised a way of freezing vast amounts of water and plans to use it in his quest for world domination. To be honest the plot is as mad as a box of frogs but it does help make it fun. Director Jess Franco is best known for his X rated horror movies so it is a nice change to see him make a film that is rated PG and your kids can watch. As usual he appears the other side of the camera too, this time playing a police detective. Horror legend Lee plays Fu Manchu, the make-up department did an OK job of making him look Oriental, however he plays the role straight and I couldn't help but chuckle a few times, such a contrast from playing say Dracula. We are also treated to the inclusion of two beautiful actresses, Rosalba Neri and Maria Perschy, both familiar faces to fans of Euro horror and erotica. The movie's locations include Spain and Istanbul, some great scenery. I also liked Fu's dungeon and laboratory, the various colours (red, green, blue, etc) make it look really good. Fu's arch enemy Nayland Smith is back and it is laughable how easily he is able to break into and moved around fiend Manchu's castle despite being fortified by the latter's small army. The special effects include a cruise liner sinking and a dam bursting, not bad at all. The Castle of Fu Manchu is certainly no classic but I found it fun and colourful, plus I am a fan of both Lee and Franco.
    6Red-Barracuda

    Hey, I liked it!

    I really feel very out of step with regards to this one because scanning through the other IMDb reviews it became quite obvious that everybody else hated it! I don't really understand the universal dislike though, as this one really didn't seem to warrant this level of abuse. Don't get me wrong, it has problems. The script being a pretty obvious one. The story was very difficult to comprehend. It involved the master criminal Fu Manchu devising a method of turning the oceans into ice by using opium or something. And by way of this he would take over the world. Okay, whatever you say! Yeah, so admittedly, the narrative is a bit senseless.

    But the thing is, I've seen a lot of Jess Franco movies and I thought this was quite coherent by his standards! In fact, it was from a period in Franco's career where he had more production value at his disposal, so again when people say this is ultra-cheap, I'm thinking it's quite big budget for Jess. I mean, he has even managed to hire Christopher Lee for the title role – I thought he was pretty imposing and well suited to the character to be fair. We also have Rosalba Neri as a gangster chick and she is always worth watching, so again, this is a good thing. Even the blatant lifts from other movies were entertaining enough, such as the whole opening scene that utilises scenes taken wholesale from A Night to Remember. Maybe the pacing could have been better perhaps but this is a constant Franco fault and in here it's no worse than usual. But overall, the film, while being often senseless, did have enough action and Euro cult value to keep me watching. Ultimately, I am probably the idiot for liking this but I guess I'll just have to live with that.
    3theskylabadventure

    The buck stops here

    The fifth and final of Christopher Lee's Fu-Manchu outings – a planned sixth film was cancelled due to its overwhelmingly poor critical and commercial reception - and the second to be directed by schlockmeister Jess Franco. Played as a parody, 'Castle' might actually have been quite fun. Fu-Manchu is essentially reduced to a poor knock-off of a Blofeld (though I'm not sure he was ever much else). Lee actually brings his A-game here, having phoned it in previously in the series, lifting the ludicrous dialogue to the point where it's almost palatable, but everything else about the film seems to be mocking itself without knowing it. The production design is so camp it makes The Ipcress File look like The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. The action and violence is again tepid and clumsy (lest we forgot this is a Jess Franco film) and the plot manages to be confusing in spite of being threadbare. There are some babes thrown in, but this is a PG movie so, again, Franco fans expecting anything resembling titillation will be thoroughly disappointed. Unlike its predecessor, which is by far the more insipid and dreary of the two, 'Castle' has a handful of things going for it. One is Jess Franco in a supporting role, wearing a fez and dubbed to sound like… I don't really know. The score is totally derivative but actually rather nice. The wacky production design and multi-coloured fluorescent lighting add a lot of hammy fun. The attempt at seamless in-scene cutting between the various, disparate filming locations is endlessly amusing. Some of the dialogue is hilariously quotable, and played to the hilt by everyone involved. Frankly, though, the two high points of the show are the sizeable inserts from A Night To Remember and Campbell's Kingdom. While definitely a cut above its predecessor in some ways, I'm still struggling to give this any kind of recommendation.

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    • Quiz
      All of the footage at the beginning featuring a large ocean liner striking an iceberg and sinking is stock footage from the British Titanic movie Titanic: Latitudine 41° Nord (1958).
    • Blooper
      The first scenes where Fu-Manchu is directing the sinking of the liner were the final scenes of a previous Fu-Manchu movie: The brides of Fu Manchu, where he shots his lieutenant who was trying to stop Fu Manchu surpass the maximum of the machine.
    • Citazioni

      Fu Manchu: The entrance to eternity. Beyond that door there is a tunnel which leads directly to the sea. Cisterns of water are poised above it. The touch of a lever will release hundreds of thousands of gallons of water into that tunnel, and combined with professor Heracles' crystals this can transform the entire sea into one gigantic block of ice.

    • Curiosità sui crediti
      Maria Perschy's character is called Dr. Ingrid Koch but on the credits her character's name is given as Marie.
    • Versioni alternative
      As usual in 'Jesus Franco' movies, the credits of the film contain different (and often incongruous with each other) info in every country's version. While the English version lists Peter Welbeck (nom-de-plum for Harry Alan Towers) as the author of the screenplay, the Spanish version (with a credits sequence that replaces the exterior shots of the castle from the original with a cheesy drawing of a red dragon) lists Manfred Barthel as the author of the story and screenplay, and Jaime Jesús Balcázar as the author of the dialogue. This version also credits some actors (such as Gustavo Re and Osvaldo Genazzani) and crew members not credited in the English version, and the cast order is different as well.
    • Connessioni
      Edited from La Dinastia del petrolio (1957)

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    • Data di uscita
      • febbraio 1972 (Regno Unito)
    • Paesi di origine
      • Regno Unito
      • Germania occidentale
      • Spagna
      • Italia
      • Liechtenstein
    • Lingue
      • Inglese
      • Tedesco
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Rumelihisari, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turchia(castle exteriors)
    • Aziende produttrici
      • Towers of London Productions
      • Balcázar Producciones Cinematográficas
      • Italian International Film
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    • Tempo di esecuzione
      • 1h 32min(92 min)
    • Colore
      • Color
    • Mix di suoni
      • Mono
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.66 : 1

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