Black Dragons (1942)

47% User Rating

1h 4min

"It's the picture that has the whole town shivering!"

It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan's fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr. Melcher, to travel to Japan on a secret mission. There he operates on six Japanese conspirators, transforming them to resemble six American leaders. The actual leaders are murdered and replaced with their likeness.

William NighDirector

Cast

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Bela Lugosi

Dr. Melcher/ Monsieur Colomb

Clayton Moore

FBI Agent Richard ‘Dick’ Martin

Joan Barclay

Alice Saunders

George Pembroke

Dr. William Saunders

Robert Frazer

Amos Hanlin

Robert Fiske

Phillip Wallace

Irving Mitchell

John Van Dyke

Edward Peil Sr.

Ryder

Kenneth Harlan

FBI Chief Colton

Max Hoffman Jr.

Kearney

Joseph Eggenton

Stevens

I. Stanford Jolley

The Dragon

Frank Melton

FBI Agent

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CinemaSerf

Rating 40%

June 26, 2022

If this isn't a piece of propaganda, then I shall never know what it. A secret Japanese society (think Yakuza meets Fu Manchu) gets the Nazis to send an evil doctor to substitute some important American industrialists whose future role will be to sabotage arms production plants during the war (that we didn't know we were going to have yet...!). Those devious Japanese, though, double-cross "Dr. Melcher" (Bela Lugosi) and imprison him so he cannot divulge the secret identities to anyone. Needless to say, he escapes and exacts revenge of the fifth columnists. The deaths of such high profile citizens naturally engage the attention of the FBI - and it's a race against time. It'd make a hell of a lot more sense if you saw the last ten minutes first; as the piecing together of this tale takes quite a bit of cerebral effort - not sure it was quite worth it.