Black Dragons

Black Dragons
Promotional lobby card for Black Dragons
Directed by	William Nigh
Produced by	Jack Dietz Sam Katzman Barney A. Sarecky
Written by	Robert Kehoe Harvey Gates
Starring	Bela Lugosi Joan Barclay George Pembroke
Music by	Johnny Lange Lew Porter Heinz Roemheld
Cinematography	Arthur Reed
Edited by	Carl Pierson
Distributed by	Monogram Pictures Corporation
Release dates	March 6, 1942 (1942-03-06)
Running time	64 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Black Dragons is a 1942 American film directed by William Nigh and starring Bela Lugosi, Joan Barclay, and George Pembroke. 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. The cast includes Clayton Moore (later famous as the Lone Ranger), who plays a handsome detective.

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

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)

External links

Black Dragons at the Internet Movie Database
Black Dragons at AllMovie
Black Dragons is available for free download at the Internet Archive

Films directed by William Nigh

Salomy Jane (1914)
Emmy of Stork's Nest (1915)
The Kiss of Hate (1916)
The Slave (1917)
Wife Number Two (1917)
Casey of the Coast Guard (1926)
The Fire Brigade (1926)
Mr. Wu (1927)
The Nest (1927)
The Law of the Range (1928)
Across to Singapore (1928)
Four Walls (1928)
Desert Nights (1929)
Thunder (1929)
Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
Without Honor (1932)
Men Are Such Fools (1932)
Mystery Liner (1934)
House of Mystery (1934)
City Limits (1934)
Monte Carlo Nights (1934)
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1935)
She Gets Her Man (1935)
His Night Out (1935)
The Old Homestead (1935)
Don't Get Personal (1936)
Crash Donovan (1936)
Bill Cracks Down (1937)
The Law Commands (1937)
Hoosier Schoolboy (1937)
Atlantic Flight (1937)
A Bride for Henry (1937)
Romance of the Limberlost (1938)
Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
Gangster's Boy (1938)
The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
The Streets of New York (1939)
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
Mutiny in the Big House (1939)
The Fatal Hour (1940)
Son of the Navy (1940)
Doomed to Die (1940)
The Ape (1940)
Zis Boom Bah (1941)
Mr. Wise Guy (1942)
Black Dragons (1942)
Lady from Chungking (1942)
Corregidor (1943)
The Ghost and the Guest (1943)
Trocadero (1944)
Divorce (1945)
Allotment Wives (1945)
The Gay Cavalier (1946)
Partners in Time (1946)
I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948)

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