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The Right Honourable Bill Maynard		#61	[-]
Mar 28 11 10:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't know the answer to that one, Mysto. Stop by the Serial Squadron website and check with them directly. "Never expect much from your fellow man. It save a lot of disappointment." - Samuel A. Peeples
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TomWeaver999		#62	[-]
Apr 20 11 5:50 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In my emailbox from a CHFB lurker: >> Remember, last fall, Profiles in History's facacta MASK OF FU MANCHU globe that looked nothing like the one Boris used in the movie? Well, no one "bit," so they're relisting it in their May auction only now they are calling it the WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST CRYSTAL BALL FROM "THE WIZARD OF OZ" -- and saying that it is the same prop "used" in MASK. <
thehorrorboy		#63	[-]
Apr 21 11 6:25 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Uh huh.
Babetician		#64	[-]
Nov 16 11 1:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Maybe one of the last times an intact 35mm print was shown. I kept a scrapbook in those days. The engagement started June 17th 1972. I saw it with my mom and my sister. It was a hot day. The theater didn't seem to have a functioning air conditioner. By axecalibore at 2011-11-16 By axecalibore at 2011-11-16 Last Edited By: Babetician Nov 16 11 1:23 PM. Edited 2 times.
hermanthegerm	THE MASK OF FU MANCHU (1932)	#65	[-]
Aug 21 12 8:43 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Saw this for the first time. A campy, fetishistic film.... with nothing much else going for it. Loved the setpieces, costuming and such, but the story is weak and the heroic characters bland. Fu is good, but the heroes are very lacking and not very compelling. Needed worthy opponents. "There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING Last Edited By: hermanthegerm Aug 21 12 9:44 PM. Edited 1 times.
Wich2		#66	[-]
Aug 21 12 9:05 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yep.
cabmangray		#67	[-]
Aug 21 12 11:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I would love to see this on a big screen someday. There are so many bizarre touches in the movie. Fu meets Nyland Smith down in what looks like a sewer complete with snakes and other creepy crawlies. Fu gathering the mind control venom from various spiders and a big-ass snake. I like the scene where a slave who has been bitten by the snake collapses and Fu just dismisses it with a "oh, too bad" wave of his hand. Fu's entire end speech which is totally racist. But I love the quick scene where, for no reason, Charles Starrett is standing in the rain, laughing maniacally. Also, if you check out production stills, you can see Karloff is wearing very thick soled, almost Frankenstein-like shoes.
sthorntn		#68	[-]
Aug 21 12 5:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That mummy attack sure is a wasted moment. What sure have been an exciting sequence ends up being a completely missed opportunity.
PhantomXCI		#69	[-]
Aug 21 12 7:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've always felt that THE MASK OF FU MANCHU is greater than the sum of its parts. Aside from Karloff and Loy, the cast are a bunch of dullards who appear to have wandered in from a drawing room drama. The sets are great, but we never see enough of them. The individual horror moments are potentially horrifying, but blandly staged. Yet, in spite of it all, the film comes off as being a heck of a lot of fun.
hermanthegerm		#70	[-]
Aug 21 12 9:43 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	cabmangray wrote: ...Also, if you check out production stills, you can see Karloff is wearing very thick soled, almost Frankenstein-like shoes... They are obvious, even in the movie. Was he not as tall as he was supposed to be? "There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom." George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING
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Uncanny32		#71	[-]
Sep 25 12 10:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Karloff is the definitive Fu (apologies to Christopher Lee); Loy a delicious dragon lady. The film has its flaws to be sure but it is a hell of a lot of fun. As for the racist elements that some have obected to, I heard a story (perhaps apocryphal) that when Karloff was asked about its offensive features was said to have replied, "If you take that movie seriously, you're stupid." If he didn't say it, he should have. The Mask of Fu Manchu is a prize of my collection.
todmichel		#72	[-]
Sep 26 12 12:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Uncanny32 wrote: Karloff is the definitive Fu (apologies to Christopher Lee); Loy a delicious dragon lady. The film has its flaws to be sure but it is a hell of a lot of fun. As for the racist elements that some have obected to, I heard a story (perhaps apocryphal) that when Karloff was asked about its offensive features was said to have replied, "If you take that movie seriously, you're stupid." If he didn't say it, he should have. The Mask of Fu Manchu is a prize of my collection. I don't know if Karloff really said that in these terms, but if so, it was the better answer to the idiots who, for stupid PC reasons, cut the movie decades after its original release. It was so easy to add a written text - as in "Freaks" and other old movies - as a kind of "warning" for modern audiences...
tonyrivers		#73	[-]
Oct 2 12 10:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	12 inch Fu Manchu figure based on Karloff's MASK OF FU MANCHU on eBay for $199 which is a bit pricey....
JimPV		#74	[-]
Oct 4 12 6:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	^ ^ ^ Awesome figure!
Gojira		#75	[-]
Feb 18 13 12:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	todmichel wrote: Uncanny32 wrote: Karloff is the definitive Fu (apologies to Christopher Lee); Loy a delicious dragon lady. The film has its flaws to be sure but it is a hell of a lot of fun. As for the racist elements that some have obected to, I heard a story (perhaps apocryphal) that when Karloff was asked about its offensive features was said to have replied, "If you take that movie seriously, you're stupid." If he didn't say it, he should have. The Mask of Fu Manchu is a prize of my collection. I don't know if Karloff really said that in these terms, but if so, it was the better answer to the idiots who, for stupid PC reasons, cut the movie decades after its original release. It was so easy to add a written text - as in "Freaks" and other old movies - as a kind of "warning" for modern audiences... It wasn't random PCness, it was due to a campaign by a Japanese citizens league.
mrbluesky		#76	[-]
Feb 18 13 1:40 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Censorship doesn't really solve anything. Considering how badly the War on Drugs has gone it would seem that a War on Ideas (even those ideas most of us detest) will always be doomed from the start.
telegonus		#77	[-]
Feb 18 13 3:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I've seen Mask Of Fu Manchu just once. It must have been on a bad day (or night), as I scarcely remember it as the film so many have commented on here; very well, I should add, singing its praises. The pace killed it for me, as I recall, as I waited, no so patiently, for the famous set pieces as if they were big musical numbers in a Busby Berkeley Gold Diggers flick. It sounds like it's worth a second viewing.
Gojira		#78	[-]
Feb 18 13 4:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I enjoy it a lot, mainly for how astonishingly sadistically sexual it is. Plus its the only 30's horror I know of that makes reference to the lack of toilet breaks in week long torture. The racism...it's important to remember this film was made by a Hearst subsidary, and Hearst was making a habit of pushing the Yellow Peril angle, something that previous Hollywood Fu films shied away from. The film avoids the wretchedness of say, Birth Of A Nation by making it as fantastical as possible, but one has to remember how even in the 1930s, the film and the books came under fire from Asian communities and even actual governments, so it's certainly not a recent PC invention. The film is very race-baiting - a lot of the slurs against whites seem to be rile up the audience, not present an even shouting match. Frankly, I wish the Christopher Lee films had indulged in a bit of the old sadism and racial baiting, as without his hatred of the "White Race", Fu becomes a boring dictator trying to take over the world for the sake of it.
Frankensteinhead		#79	[-]
Feb 18 13 5:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Babetician wrote: Maybe one of the last times an intact 35mm print was shown. I kept a scrapbook in those days. The engagement started June 17th 1972. I saw it with my mom and my sister. It was a hot day. The theater didn't seem to have a functioning air conditioner. By axecalibore at 2011-11-16 By axecalibore at 2011-11-16 I skipped school in grade 8 to see this exact same triple bill up here in Toronto Canada. It was one of the grandest days of my mis-spent youth.
Wich2		#80	[-]
Feb 18 13 6:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	How cool, F.! Reminds me of when not too long after that, my cousin and I saw the revived COCONUTS/ANIMAL CRACKERS double as research for our own ersatz Marx film. Billy Pratt knew his stuff. This Fu LOOKS nice, but it's dopey in the extreme. -Craig
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