The Polar Star is a 1919 British silent mystery film directed by Arrigo Bocchi and starring Manora Thew, Hayford Hobbs and Peggy Patterson. When a London soliciter is killed in mysterious circumstances in Italy.
It was made at Catford Studios and on location in Italy.
, 1h34 Directed byJesús Franco OriginGerman GenresScience fiction, Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Crime ActorsChristopher Lee, Tsai Chin, Howard Marion-Crawford, Richard Greene, Maria Rohm, Shirley Eaton Rating43% In his remote jungle hideout, the evil Fu Manchu has discovered a deadly poison in a "lost city" in the Amazonian jungle that affects only men. Women can become carriers of the "kiss of death" by being bitten by venomous snakes. The poison causes blindness and ultimately followed six weeks later by death. Using mind control, he aims the women at Nayland Smith and other key people with political influence. This prevents them from interfering with his own ambitions to prepare millions of "doses" and spread them around the world's major cities and capitals in a plan to gain world domination.