Mask of the Dragon

Mask of the Dragon

10/3/1951 0h 53m 4.5/10

Overview

A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon.

Director

Sam Newfield

Top Billed Cast

Richard Travis

Richard Travis

Phil Ramsey

Lyle Talbot

Lyle Talbot

Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin

Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan

Ginny O'Donnell

Michael Whalen

Michael Whalen

Maj. Clinton

Sid Melton

Sid Melton

Manchu Murphy

Dee Tatum

Terry Newell

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

12/26/2022

4/10

This film has only one thing to recommend it. The frankly hilarious portrayal of devious Korean "Prof. Kim Ho" by an outrageously badly cast Jack Reitzen. The rest of this procedural adventure centres around an American soldier "Oliver" (Richard Emory) who promises to repatriate a jade dragon with the aforementioned Professor at his Los Angeles shop. Thing is, though, he doesn't last long enough when he gets home and it now falls to his pal "Ramsey" (Richard Travis) and his gal "Ginny" (Sheila Ryan) - who now possess this valuable curio - to get to the bottom of the murder before they, too, find themselves goners. The title evokes "Fu Manchu" or "Charlie Chan" style adventures, but sadly Sam Newfield and his cast of no-hopers delivers us more in the line of a badly scripted and poorly directed C-feature that is peppered with a couple of seriously rotten set-piece musical numbers and some contrived comedy banter (from Sid Melton) that might kill an hour at a drive-in. I really wouldn't bother!

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