Sumuru
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It was said that she was an ice-cold, fascinating genius whose hypnotic powers impelled all men to do her bidding.
I remember after watching The Girl from Rio being surprised to discover there’d been other movies - very loosely I suspect - based on Sax Rohmer’s Sumuru. (None of them available from Netflix.)
Sumuru came back to my mind when I posted the short note about Fah Lo Suee, the Daughter of Fu Manchu.
Somewhere around the house I think I have a copy of one of the several novels Rohmer wrote featuring her. Naturally after years of not being interested I can’t find it. I’d like to see to what degree Sumuru’s gynarchic ambitions as seen in the movie adaptations were present in the novels.
At least one of the films had fun promotional posters:
The most diabolical … bizarre … sadistic woman who ever lived.
She rules a palace of pleasure … for women! Where men are used in a diabolical plot to destroy civilization!
These are the beauties who will control your future!
The paperback cover and dust jacket art is disappointing:
Every woman was her disciple and every man her slave.
