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Five Golden Dragons

  • 1967
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
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Christopher Lee, Brian Donlevy, Dan Duryea, and George Raft in Five Golden Dragons (1967)
ActionAdventureComedyCrimeDramaMystery

A naive young American playboy in Hong Kong finds himself caught up in the middle of an international crime.A naive young American playboy in Hong Kong finds himself caught up in the middle of an international crime.A naive young American playboy in Hong Kong finds himself caught up in the middle of an international crime.

  • Director
    • Jeremy Summers
  • Writers
    • Harry Alan Towers
    • Edgar Wallace
  • Stars
    • Robert Cummings
    • Margaret Lee
    • Rupert Davies
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.9/10
    607
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jeremy Summers
    • Writers
      • Harry Alan Towers
      • Edgar Wallace
    • Stars
      • Robert Cummings
      • Margaret Lee
      • Rupert Davies
    • 23User reviews
    • 32Critic reviews
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    Robert Cummings
    Robert Cummings
    • Bob Mitchell
    • (as Bob Cummings)
    Margaret Lee
    Margaret Lee
    • Magda
    Rupert Davies
    Rupert Davies
    • Commissioner Sanders
    Klaus Kinski
    Klaus Kinski
    • Gert
    Maria Rohm
    Maria Rohm
    • Ingrid
    Sieghardt Rupp
    Sieghardt Rupp
    • Peterson
    Roy Chiao
    Roy Chiao
    • Inspector Chiao
    Brian Donlevy
    Brian Donlevy
    • Dragon #3
    Dan Duryea
    Dan Duryea
    • Dragon #1
    Christopher Lee
    Christopher Lee
    • Dragon #4
    George Raft
    George Raft
    • Dragon #2
    Maria Perschy
    Maria Perschy
    • Margret
    Yukari Itô
    • Guest Singer
    • (as Yukari Ito)
    Domino
    • Magda
    • (singing voice)
    Robert Rietty
    Robert Rietty
    • Gert
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jeremy Summers
    • Writers
      • Harry Alan Towers
      • Edgar Wallace
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    5jameselliot-1

    Only Four Golden Dragons

    There are four golden reasons to watch this lightweight comedy- thriller from B-movie programmer king Harry Alan Towers alias Peter Welbeck. 1) the on-location photography of 1960s Hong Kong 2) Margaret Lee who also sings "Five Golden Dragons," a good little tune 3) Maria Rohm 4) Maria Perschy. If not for the latter three, I'd have turned off this movie after 20 minutes. I can't see any reason to actually buy the DVD if you've seen it on TV or Amazon Prime.

    Affable Bob Cummings basically plays his TV character from "Love That Bob." Evasive, easy-going, constantly chattering small talk, nervous, clumsy and too-cool-for-school, Bob overdoes wiping his face with a handkerchief in the second half. I don't know what that was all about. An endless stream of beefy Chinese thugs in matching Polo shirts chase him around Hong Kong but can't kill him but they do kill off one of the cast sleeping in his hotel bedroom, while he's on the couch snoozing. The rest of the cast in small roles is a Who's Who of movie legends, well-known faces and international actors.

    Bob was lucky not to have any scenes directly opposite mad man Klaus Kinski, unusually subdued here. It has the same kind of fun-B movie time-killing, ambiance as another Towers production, Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (Our Man in Marrakesh) with Tony Randall who supposedly turned down the Cummings role. Towers had a yen for these Sax Rohmer/Edgar Wallace-style films in the 1960s, ultimately producing and writing over 100 films during his lifetime, adding production value with exotic locations like Beirut and Hong Kong. The editing of the night club performances by Lee and Yukari Ito is poor, interrupting their singing for some meaningless cut-away and then back again to the singers.
    5planktonrules

    An collection of geezers hang out in Hong Kong.

    "Five Golden Dragons" is a very odd film that was made at the Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong. It's odd because although the studio is known for its martial arts movies, this one is a crime film jam-packed with over the hill American stars of the past. Bob Cummings stars in it but it also features Dan Duryea, George Raft and Brian Donlevy! Additionally, Christopher Lee is there...and like all but Cummings, he barely has a line in the film and spends much of the movie wearing a silly golden dragon mask!

    Cummings plays an American businessman, Bob Mitchell, who is in Hong Kong on business. However, his path crosses a vicious gang run by the Golden Dragons syndicate and he spends much of the film running from these jerks....and, inexplicably, running from the police who are trying to save him!

    The plot to this film quite often makes no sense. However, the location shooting looks nice and the film never really takes itself seriously, so it's still a decent time-passer...even if the notion of the older American actor somehow defeating crime lords!
    3bkoganbing

    Not Dragons, just dragging

    I'm sure that Bob Cummings and the guest stars who played the Golden Dragons must have looked forward to a nice trip to Hong Kong as the main reason for signing on for this film. In the case of George Raft his troubles with the IRS are well documented. It's as good a reason as any to appear in this dragging film.

    Five Men who are the Golden Dragons are operators apparently on both sides of the law and unknown to each other they meet in Hong Kong to dissolve a successful partnership and split their accumulated loot. They wear these silly dragon masks and have a key that opens a lock for admission. If they're not a dragon, they got shot with a turn of said lock.

    Four of them make it, Dan Duryea, George Raft, Christopher Lee, and Brian Donlevy. The fifth doesn't show up, he's been eliminated. They can't start without him.

    In the meantime kind of like Cary Grant was sucked into some espionage plot in an infinitely better film, North By Northwest, Bob Cummings gets involved in this whole business. He's an aging playboy in Hong Kong for some fun and frolic. Of course he's not what he seems.

    Cummings tried to make light of the whole business. Everyone else mouthed the dialog with all the satisfaction of players whose salary checks have cleared.

    All of you I'm sure have better memories of all the name players in the cast. Keep them.
    6dsewizzrd-1

    Crassy !

    B grade British film set (and made) in Hong Kong, although the leads are American.

    The Five Dragons are a confederate involved in illegal activity in Hong Kong, when they decide to dissolve the confederate. A professor meets some young women at the pool and becomes involved.

    The story is simple comic book stuff, and not particularly carefully made, but the film is livened up by many period scenes in Hong Kong and the comely Magda.

    There is a song by a contemporary Japanese star called Yukari Ito. In one scene a (new) Toyota Corona turns into an (old) Morris Oxford before blowing up.
    5girvsjoint

    Five Tarnished Dragons

    Unlike the other reviewers, I think the main reason to watch this film, is Robert Cummings, who for some strange reason preferred to bill himself as 'Bob' in the later years of his career! Always a smooth operator on screen, and in my all time top 5 or 6 'comedy' actors, I feel he must have realized early on that he was involved in somewhat of a 'turkey', and decided, wisely I think, to play the whole thing tongue in cheek! No matter what else is, or isn't going on around him, Mr. Cummings himself is always fascinating to watch! And the girls are all gorgeous, and the scenery is nice! It's a pity Cummings couldn't have had a better vehicle for his big screen swansong, but I think the secret of enjoying this film is simply not to take anything seriously!

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    • Trivia
      Sir Christopher Lee recalled that he spent several happy hours talking to Brian Donlevy's wife, Lillian. Prior to marrying Donlevy, she had been Lillian Lugosi.
    • Goofs
      When the murdered Margret (Maria Perschy) is discovered lying on bed in her hotel room with her neck having been broken, we watch Commander Sanders (Rupert Davies) and Bob Mitchell (Bob Cummings) - after having examined Margret's corpse - in the foreground discussing their further proceedings to solve the crimes that have been committed so far in the movie. In the background we observe the dead body of Margret blinking with both her eyelids several times! A dead person surely can't do that.
    • Quotes

      Dragon #1: [to all Dragons] I would remind you of the penalty for any stranger who dares to penetrate our brotherhood: Death!

    • Alternate versions
      German theatrical version was re-edited and cut by approx. 20 minutes. The DVD release from Koch Media includes the original British version.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Tall, Lean and Feline: Jonathan Rigby on Christopher Lee and the Fu Manchu cycle (2020)
    • Soundtracks
      Five Golden Dragons
      Music by Malcolm Lockyer

      Lyrics by Hal Shaper

      Performed by Domino

      [The second song Magda (Margaret Lee) sings at the club]

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    • Release date
      • August 4, 1967 (West Germany)
    • Countries of origin
      • United Kingdom
      • West Germany
      • Liechtenstein
      • Hong Kong
    • Languages
      • English
      • Cantonese
      • German
      • Japanese
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • 5 Golden Dragons
    • Filming locations
      • Old Peak Road and May Road, Hong Kong, China(Convoluted road with bridge in early scene)
    • Production companies
      • Blansfilm
      • Constantin Film
      • Sargon
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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