Black Dragons
It's the picture that has the whole town shivering!
1942 | 64m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | William Nigh |
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| Writer: | Harvey Gates, Robert Kehoe |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 06, 1942 |
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| Director: | William Nigh |
| Writer: | Harvey Gates, Robert Kehoe |
| Genres: | Horror, War |
| Keywords | world war ii, nazi, embassy, sabotage, doppelgänger, japanese army |
| Production Companies | Monogram Pictures, Banner Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 15, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| William Nigh | Director |
| Carl Pierson | Editor |
| Johnny Lange | Music |
| Arthur Reed | Director of Photography |
| Jack Dietz | Production Manager |
| Harvey Gates | Screenplay, Original Story |
| Robert Kehoe | Story |
| Lew Porter | Music |
| Dave Milton | Art Direction |
| Glen Glenn | Sound Engineer |
| Heinz Roemheld | Music |
| Arthur Hammond | Assistant Director |
| Gerald Schnitzer | Assistant Director |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Sam Katzman | Producer |
| Jack Dietz | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 9 | 23 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 9 | 40 | 2 |
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| 2025 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
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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.