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Director
  
William Nigh

Initial DVD release
  
January 21, 2003

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

4.2/10
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Genre
  
Thriller, War

Language
  
English

Black Dragons movie poster

Cast
  
Bela Lugosi
(Dr. Melcher/ Monsieur Colomb),
Joan Barclay
(Alice Saunders),
George Pembroke
(Dr. William Saunders),
Clayton Moore
(FBI Agent Richard ‘Dick’ Martin)

Writer
  
Robert Kehoe
,
Harvey Gates

Release date
  
March 6, 1942 (1942-03-06)

Music director
  
Heinz Eric Roemheld, Johnny Lange, Lew Porter

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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
It's the picture that has the whole town shivering!

Black Dragons is a 1942 American film directed by William Nigh and starring Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, and George Pembroke. The cast includes Clayton Moore (later famous as the Lone Ranger), who plays a handsome detective. The Black Dragon Society also appears in Let's Get Tough! a 1942 East Side Kids film made by the same team of writer Harvey Gates and producer Sam Katzman.

Contents

Black Dragons movie scenes

Plot

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 likenesses. Dr. Melcher is condemned to a lifetime of imprisonment so the secret may die with him.

Cast

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  • Bela Lugosi as Dr. Melcher aka Monsieur Colomb / Cell Prisoner
  • Joan Barclay as Alice Saunders
  • George Pembroke as Dr. Bill Saunders
  • Clayton Moore as Dick Martin
  • Robert Frazer as Amos Hanlin
  • Edward Peil, Sr. as Philip Wallace (credited as Edward Piel Sr.)
  • Robert Fiske as Ryder
  • Irving Mitchell as John Van Dyke
  • Kenneth Harlan as FBI Chief Colton
  • Max Hoffman Jr. as Kearney
  • Frank Melton as FBI Agent
  • Joseph Eggenton as Stevens
  • I. Stanford Jolley as The Dragon (credited as Stanford Jolley)
  • Jack Cheatham as Policeman (uncredited)
  • Jack Chefe as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
  • Bernard Gorcey as The Cabbie (uncredited)
  • Jack Holmes as Industrialist (uncredited)
  • Ethelreda Leopold as Girl at Party (uncredited)
  • Carl M. Leviness as Industrialist (uncredited)

    • Production

    The film was rushed into production following the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was to begin filming on 17 January 1941 but this was pushed back until 21 January. The original working title was The Yellow Menace.

    Release

    The film was released in Los Angeles on the double bill with the Australian film Pituri (also known as Uncivilised).

    The Los Angeles Times said that "those who love their mystery and their Lugosi will find this film unusually sinister."

    The film was colorised in the 1990s.

    References

    Black Dragons Wikipedia
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    Black Dragons IMDb Black Dragons themoviedb.org