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The Mask of Fu Manchu
Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum
From the Chicago Reader

Though light years away from anything resembling political correctness, this 1932 horror thriller about a Chinese madman (Boris Karloff) threatening an expedition to the tomb of Ghengis Khan is often magnificent, imaginative stuff: bombastic pulp at its purple best. Charles Brabin directed this adaptation of Sax Rohmer's novel; with Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt, and Myrna Loy as Karloff's daughter. 72 min.

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