Richard Travis

Sheila Ryan

Sid Melton

Michael Whalen

Lyle Talbot

Dee Tatum

Richard Emory

Jack Reitzen

Charles Iwamoto

Karl 'Killer' Davis

Johnny Grant

Carla Martin

Ray Singer

Curt Barrett

Margia Dean

Cosmo Sardo

Sam Newfield

Orville H. Hampton

Jack Greenhalgh

Dudley Chambers

Carl Pierson

Bert Sternbach

Stanley Neufeld

Harry Reif

Tom Kemp

Glen Glenn

Paul Stanhope

Alfred Berke

Ray Mercer

Sigmund Neufeld

Crime

Drama

Mask of the Dragon

Spartan Productions

United States of America

CinemaSerf

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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