The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

Fu Manchu’s 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu’s age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington., In his last role, Peter Sellers doubles as the Oriental archvillain and a detective, questing for a youth preservative. Helen Mirren, Sid Caesar, David Tomlinson. Robert: Simon Williams. Directed by Piers Haggard., Bizarre comedy in which Dr Fu Manchu sets about concocting a new brew to keep him alive, after the last of the ‘elixir vitae’ which has seen him through his 168 years is spilled. In Peter Sellers’s last film, he plays both the doctor and his nemesis, Scotland Yard detective Nayland Smith., In search of a secret formula to prolong his life, Dr. Fu Manchu must battle his arch rival, a Scotland Yard detective named Nayland Smith, for the right to world domination. Peter Sellers stars as both Nayland Smith and Dr. Fu Manchu in his final film appearance., On Dr. Fu Manchu’s 186th birthday, someone spills his age-reversing elixir, and the evil doctor sends his minions off to find the ingredients to make more.