Five Golden Dragons

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Wayne T Were late 1960’s movies really that bad? The obnoxious musical score is incessant. Robert Cummings knew something denied the audience: the script forbid the baddies from killing him for hamming up every scene (a huge pity) to create a new genre, the comic opera thriller romance dud starring the very model of a modern major general Jerry Lewis Bond. Let’s burn every last can of this embarrassment on the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/23/24 Full Review Audience Member Edgar Wallace was a popular British writer of thrillers in the early 20th Century; he immigrated to the USA and became a scriptwriter at RKO before his death (his most famous script was for the original King Kong). Wallace's works were rediscovered in Europe, particularly in West Germany, in the 1950s and that led to quite a few adaptations of his novels by various film studios in the 1960s. Five Golden Dragons was one of these, filmed in Hong Kong using the Shaw Brother's studios it involves the popular Hitchcock premise of the 'wrong man,' in this case an American tourist Bob Mitchell (Robert Cummings) accidentally stumbling onto an international criminal organization, the Five Golden Dragons, that is planning to sell its worldwide illegitimate enterprises to the American Mafia. It is likely that the original Wallace novel was filled with a lot more "Yellow Peril" stereotypes and the Bob Mitchell character is a bit too much like a Bob Hope character than a Jimmy Stewart character; his character was probably altered from the novel to fit a 1960s sensibility. The 1960s Hong Kong location shots are great, this film tales full advantage of its exotic locale. And it features Klaus Kinski as a chain-smoking assassin and Dan Duryea, George Raft, Brian Donlevy, and the always great Christopher Lee as four of the Five Golden Dragons. Plus Rupert Davis as a Shakespeare-quotingHong Kong police Commander who is always being corrected by Inspector Chan (Roy Chiao) as to which act and scene the quote comes from. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Plenty of B-list stars packed into this crime mystery, although it never gets its style right, and Richard Cummings seems to be the only actor playing this one for laughs, which doesn't help. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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