Black Dragons Reviews

This bizarre wartime horror/espionage film stars Bela Lugosi as Dr. Melcher Colomb, a Nazi plastic surgeon sent to Japan to give Japanese spies a Caucasian look so they can move about freely while committing their heinous acts of sabotage in the US. The surgery is a success, but the untrustworthy Japanese throw the doctor in the hoosegow to make sure the whole thing stays secret. The angry surgeon eventually escapes, however, and travels to America to seek his revenge . The whole thing is pretty silly (not to mention racist, as were most films of this period) and unnecessarily complicated by a convoluted structure that depends on a lengthy flashback at the climax to explain Lugosi's motivation. Not a particularly good film, but definitely an oddity and worth a look for the historically curious.