Mask of the Dragon
A Manhunt that began in KOREA and Ended In CRIME!
1951 | 53m | English
Popularity: 0.3 (history)
| Director: | Sam Newfield |
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| Writer: | Orville H. Hampton |
| Staring: |
| A private eye and his girlfriend avenge his buddy, stabbed over a jade dragon. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 10, 1951 |
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| Director: | Sam Newfield |
| Writer: | Orville H. Hampton |
| Genres: | |
| Keywords | statuette, private detective |
| Production Companies | Spartan Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 19, 2026 Entered: May 04, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Richard Travis | Phil Ramsey |
| Sheila Ryan | Ginny O'Donnell |
| Sid Melton | Manchu Murphy |
| Michael Whalen | Maj. Clinton |
| Lyle Talbot | Police Lt. Ralph McLaughlin |
| Dee Tatum | Terry Newell |
| Richard Emory | Army Lt. Daniel Oliver |
| Jack Reitzen | Prof. Kim Ho |
| Charles Iwamoto | Simo |
| Karl 'Killer' Davis | Kingpin |
| Johnny Grant | Johnny Grant - TV Show Host |
| Carla Martin | Sarah |
| Ray Singer | Grantland |
| Curt Barrett | Band Leader |
| Margia Dean | Television Actress (uncredited) |
| Cosmo Sardo | Tourist (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Sam Newfield | Director |
| Orville H. Hampton | Screenplay |
| Jack Greenhalgh | Director of Photography |
| Dudley Chambers | Original Music Composer |
| Carl Pierson | Editor |
| Bert Sternbach | Production Manager |
| Stanley Neufeld | Assistant Director |
| Harry Reif | Set Decoration |
| Tom Kemp | Construction Manager |
| Glen Glenn | Sound |
| Paul Stanhope | Makeup Artist |
| Alfred Berke | Costume Design |
| Ray Mercer | Special Effects |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Sigmund Neufeld | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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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 t ... he 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!