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''The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu'' is a 1980 comedy film, notable as the final film of Peter Sellers, David Tomlinson and John Le Mesurier. Pre-production began with Richard Quine as director. By the time the film entered production, Piers Haggard had replaced him. Peter Sellers handled the re-shoots himself. Based on characters created by Sax Rohmer, the film stars Sellers in the dual role of Fu Manchu, a stereotypical Chinese evil genius, and English country gentleman detective Nayland Smith (he also appears in an uncredited cameo as a Mexican ''bandito''). Released less than a month after his death and despite it being the last film Sellers appeared in while he was alive, the film was a commercial and critical failure. It was also the final film appearance for Tomlinson, who retired shortly before its release and died in 2000. ==Background== 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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