The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu is a 1929 US 'Sax Rohmer' crime thriller film. It features Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, and O.P. Heggie. During the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vows to take his revenge on the British army officers he holds responsible for the killings.