The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (MOD) "2020's"

The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (MOD) "2020's"Fu Manchu has run out of the elixir that keeps his 168 year old body Fit for Fiendishness. Peter Sellers is deliciously diabolical and he's up to his old multiple role tricks that worked so hilariously in Dr. Strangelove and The Mouse That Roared.

This causes Joslin to become inadvertently involved in the fraud case against racketeer Keever (Bruce Bennett)

It's a time of boomtowns or bust for oil wildcatters and

And so begins this colorful tale of theater hopefuls with stars in their eyes and greasepaint in their veins

Adding extra excitement is James Cagney in his second film

Roddy McDowell ("Planet of the Apes")

Then one day Bailey falls ill and gets a diagnosis from a no-nonsense doctor: he's suffering from "inflammation of the family

an El Morocco showgirl

And only Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) knows where it's at

William Hurt

Chumley Orr rests in the pocket of clever gentleman thief Nicholas Revel

MAISIE GOES TO RENO (1944) Maisie is ordered to take medical leave

the pranksters decide to play detective