{"id":35422,"date":"2024-03-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35422"},"modified":"2024-03-15T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:57:42","slug":"black-dragons-starring-bela-lugosi-clayton-moore-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35422","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Black Dragons&#8221; starring Bela Lugosi &#038; Clayton Moore \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z031524zview_blackdragons.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"764\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Black Dragons <\/strong><\/em>(1942)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>\u00a0William Nigh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Screenplay: <strong>Robert Kehoe, Harvey Gates<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Keye Luke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>See him pit his terror against Japan&#8217;s treacherous agents in the U.S.A.!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to World War II Japan and Germany secretly killed and replaced six top US business leaders.\u00a0 They did this by murdering the men and replacing them with Japanese agents who had facelifts performed by a Nazi doctor.\u00a0 The Japanese agents could destroy the USA&#8217;s war efforts and provide information to assist the Axis.\u00a0 When one of the spies is killed, Detective Dick Martin (Moore) is assigned to the case and discovers the evil plan.\u00a0 It is up to Detective Martin and an unknown ally to bring down the foreign agents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Filming on <em>Black Dragons<\/em> began about one and one half months after Japan&#8217;s attack on Pearl Harbor making it one of the first movie responses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you buy the fact that the plastic surgery made the Japanese spies look exactly like the men they replaced, you still have to believe that they had perfect voice matches and knew each man&#8217;s personal history (including secrets) so they could fool friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s cool to see <em>The Lone Ranger<\/em> (Clayton Moore) paired with <em>Dracula<\/em> (Bela Lugosi).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keye Luke who played Charlie Chan&#8217;s son in several films (and went on to a long Hollywood career) has a small role as one of the agents that Bela Lugosi operates on.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Black Dragons <\/strong><\/em>(1942) rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z031524zview_blackdragons2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Dragons (1942) Director: \u00a0William Nigh Screenplay: Robert Kehoe, Harvey Gates Stars: Bela Lugosi, Clayton Moore\u00a0and\u00a0Keye Luke Tagline: See him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35429,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35422\/revisions\/35429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}