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06/03/1942 Thriller, Mystery, Horror 1h 4m
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It's the picture that has the whole town shivering!

Overview

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.

  1. William Nigh

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Bela Lugosi

    Dr. Melcher/ Monsieur Colomb

  2. Clayton Moore

    FBI Agent Richard ‘Dick’ Martin

  3. Joan Barclay

    Alice Saunders

  4. George Pembroke

    Dr. William Saunders

  5. Robert Frazer

    Amos Hanlin

  6. Robert Fiske

    Phillip Wallace

  7. Irving Mitchell

    John Van Dyke

  8. Edward Peil Sr.

    Ryder

  9. Kenneth Harlan

    FBI Chief Colton

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-26
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 citiz...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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