Five Golden Dragons

Five Golden Dragons (1967)

Girls • Gold • Intrigue!

While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.

Date of release
1967-08-03
TMDB
5.2 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Drama, Action
Director
Jeremy Summers

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Hong Kong

Five Golden Dragons is a 1967 international co-production action comedy film set in Hong Kong and photographed in Techniscope on location in September 1966 at the Tiger Balm Pagoda and Shaw Brothers studios. It was directed by Jeremy Summers and starred Bob Cummings in his final theatrical feature film, Margaret Lee who sings two songs in the film, Rupert Davies and a cast of "guest stars".

Production notes

The film was one of three Harry Alan Towers made at the Hong Kong studios of Run Run Shaw the others being The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (also directed by Jeremy Summers, with Christopher Lee in the title role and Maria Rohm again named Ingrid) and The Million Eyes of Sumuru (with Klaus Kinski and Maria Rohm in supporting roles). In September 1966 Don Sharp was going to direct.

Cummings met his fourth wife Regina Fong who was a script girl on the film. Filmink felt Cummings "looks awful" in the movie in part due to his drug addiction at the time.

Five Golden Dragons was one of a number of lighthearted spy and action films released during the second half of the 1960s. A year earlier, in April 1966, two other films were released in London with a similar plot of a tourist being chased by assassins — A Man Could Get Killed, directed by Cliff Owen and Ronald Neame and starring James Garner as well as Harry Alan Towers' Our Man in Marrakesh, directed by Don Sharp and starring Tony Randall, with…

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