The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu

I have always enjoyed the intelligent films made by Warner Oland as Charlie Chan (as there were no native Chinese actors who could have played that role in the 1930s). However, I found his Fu Manchu series to be quite inferior for a few reasons. The blatant racist implications of the "pure" white race being threatened by the "Yellow Peril" is highly prevalent in this film. This, of course, was a pure Hollywood fabrication, because generally speaking, criminals in Chinese society seldom, if ever, ventured outside of Chinatown, and never got involved with situations involving non-Chinese. The last thing these people needed was attention from the legal authorities of the city they were operating in. Not my cup of Green Tea. Some interesting moments with Oland.