I see that Turner Classic Movies (for the month of June) will be running something they call "Folterkammer des Doktor Fu Manchu, Die (1968)". Since the description and cast matches the Castle of Fu Manchu, I'm assuming it is the same movie (I hope in English, not German with English subtitles). The description is "The infamous Chinese warlord plots to freeze the Earth's oceans. Cast: Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Maria Perschy." Sounds like CoFM to me all right. Since I already have a very good DVD copy of this little gem, I will probably just tape it and do a quick review the next day (it is on at 1:45 a.m. Pacific Time on June 4th).
Tom Carberry (#45505, and "...they never should have let Shatner direct."
I see that Turner Classic Movies (for the month of June) will be running
something they call "Folterkammer des Doktor Fu Manchu, Die (1968)". Since
the description and cast matches the Castle of Fu Manchu, I'm assuming it is
the same movie (I hope in English, not German with English subtitles). The
description is "The infamous Chinese warlord plots to freeze the Earth's
oceans. Cast: Christopher Lee, Richard Greene, Maria Perschy." Sounds like
CoFM to me all right. Since I already have a very good DVD copy of this
little gem, I will probably just tape it and do a quick review the next day
(it is on at 1:45 a.m. Pacific Time on June 4th).
Oh, that sounds neat. Castle of Fu Manchu is a rare episode that I've only actually seen at conventions -- it as Cosmic Princess, I think. Whatever was the Space: 1999 compilation.
As you might expect, I haven't seen it un-MiSTed at all, so I'm looking forward to ... well, I suppose I need to set up one of those nagging reminders from the online sources. I'm sure to forget it without help. I had the same problem with The Wild, Wild Planet, which I left a reminder for so far ahead of time that by the time I got the e-mail reminder I forgot why I ever wanted to see the movie. Then I did see the movie, and remembered why I forgot the movie. But it was a good kind of bad.
-- Joseph Nebus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I'll post another reminder as the time nears--sometimes TCM changes their schedule at the last moment (like for the death of Richard Widmark). I've seen the theatrical version of CoFM (Letterbox version I got from Netflix) and it makes slightly (and I mean very slightly) more sense uncut. Of course the MST'd version is one of my favorities, but I'm definitely in the minority on that one.
Tom Carberry (#45505, "...jelly donut got away from you, heh.")
