# The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

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**Runtime**: 68 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Charles Brabin
**Written by**: Edgar Allan Woolf, Irene Kuhn, John Willard
**Starring**: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt

> *The Frankenstein of the Orient!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Shadows fall across ancient temple walls on a dark autumn night a gong sounds 
Englishmen versus Dr Fu Manchu in a perilous desert quest 
A pre-code horror staple from the early sound era.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult, neon-soaked, pitch-black, unhinged

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