Cast
Sellers had previously recorded a 1955 Goon Show entitled The Terrible Revenge of Fred Fu-Manchu set in 1895. In the film his Fu insists friends call him "Fred" and that he had once been the groundsman at Eton.
In addition to Sellers, the film features Sid Caesar as FBI agent Joe Capone, David Tomlinson as Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Roger Avery, Simon Williams as his bumbling nephew and Helen Mirren as Police Constable Helen Rage (her performance is notable for her singing the Music Hall standard, "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow").
Burt Kwouk, Sellers' longtime co-star in The Pink Panther films, makes a cameo appearance as a Fu Manchu minion who accidentally destroys the elixir vita, prompting the inside joke that Fu thinks he looks familiar (possibly a veiled reference to Kwouk's two uncredited appearances in the "Fu Manchu" films of Christopher Lee). John Le Mesurier has a small part in the film as Nayland-Smith's butler.
Unlike other Fu Manchu works, Fu's daughter and Nayland-Smith's friend Dr. Petrie do not appear in the film.
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