Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, The (1929)

Warner Oland, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton, Noble Johnson The film recounts the beginnings of the doctor’s life of crime: the deaths of his wife and son during the Boxer Rebellion drives Dr. Fu Manchu to kill off, one by one, the British colonialists who put down the Rebellion, using what a contemporary reviewer called "diabolical cunning and fiendish methods." 1929, 70 minutes, B&W