Five Golden Dragons (1967)

An American playboy (Robert Cummings) on vacation in Hong Kong inadvertently finds himself involved in international intrigue when a mysterious note is sent to him by a murder victim. Directed by Jeremy Summers (HOUSE OF 1,000 DOLLS), this is a rather inept action comedy with an aged and tired looking Cummings giving a charmless performance. It needed the kind of performance that Roger Moore was effortlessly giving on a regular basis during his tenure as James Bond but which defeats Cummings. The action sequences are weak like a foot chase across Chinese junks which goes nowhere and a ridiculous sequence with Cummings being chased by the most inept ninjas imaginable. Then the movie stops cold while three songs are sung, two by the film's femme fatale Margaret Lee (dubbed by a singer called Domino) and one by Yukari Ito. On the upside, the wide screen Techniscope images of Hong Kong courtesy of John Von Kotze are quite handsome. With George Raft, Christopher Lee, Dan Duryea, Brian Donlevy, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm, Rupert Davies, Roy Chiao and Maria Perschy.