Movie Review - The Mask of Fu Manchu
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
directed by Charles Brabin and Charles Vidor
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
When the whole enterprise is so far into the fantastical - torture chambers, tomb-robbing expeditions, opium dens - it isn't so much an issue of racism as it is a film that feels, mostly for the better, every one of its 74 years. Karloff's clear regal lisp never dims beneath that moustache, and his studio funhouse and sadistic daughter (Myrna Loy!) are worth half the tea in China.
directed by Charles Brabin and Charles Vidor
rating: 3 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from the vaults
When the whole enterprise is so far into the fantastical - torture chambers, tomb-robbing expeditions, opium dens - it isn't so much an issue of racism as it is a film that feels, mostly for the better, every one of its 74 years. Karloff's clear regal lisp never dims beneath that moustache, and his studio funhouse and sadistic daughter (Myrna Loy!) are worth half the tea in China.
posted by NPK at 11:57 AM
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