Posts Tagged ‘Secrets of the Orient’
“Thirteen Women” (1932)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023582/]
Capsule Description: Thirteen women are marked for death, the revenge of one woman they denied entrance into their sorority and drove from the school. Armed with the mystic powers of her Asian ancestry, she uses the esoteric power of hypnotism and suggestion to drive her enemies to their deaths, stooping to mundane methods of poison and explosives when those methods fail.
“The Mask of Fu Manchu” (1932)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023194/]
Capsule Description: The malevolent Mandarin, Fu Manchu, attempts to rally the heathen Asiatic hordes under his banner by way of the legendary Sword and Mask of Genghis Kahn, proclaiming himself the reincarnation of the legendary conqueror. But his opponent, Sir Nayland Smith, is there to oppose his scheme.