The Million Eyes of Sumuru

The Million Eyes of Sumuru
Theatrical release poster by Heywood Brown
Directed byLindsay Shonteff
Screenplay byKevin Kavanagh
Story byPeter Welbeck
Based onSumuru
by Sax Rohmer
Produced byHarry Alan Towers
StarringFrankie Avalon
George Nader
Shirley Eaton
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Klaus Kinski
Maria Rohm
CinematographyJohn Von Kotze
Edited byAllan Morrison
Music byJohnny Scott
Production
company
Sumuru Films
Distributed byAnglo-Amalgamated
Warner-Pathe (UK)
American International Pictures (United States)
Release dates
  • 17 May 1967 (1967-05-17) (US)
  • 3 December 1967 (1967-12-03) (UK)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Million Eyes of Sumuru, also known as The Million Eyes of Su-muru and Sumuru, is a 1967 British-Hong Kong spy film directed by Lindsay Shonte and starring Frankie Avalon, George Nader and Shirley Eaton. It was produced by Harry Alan Towers and filmed at the Shaw Brothers studios in Hong Kong. It was based on a series of novels by Sax Rohmer about a megalomaniacal femme fatale. (Towers had just made a series of films about Rohmer's Fu Manchu.)

The film was released in the U.S. by American International Pictures on 17 May 1967. In the U.K., it was released through Warner-Pathé on 3 December, titled simply Sumuru.