The fifth horror pagoda
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German title | The fifth horror pagoda |
Original title | Five Golden Dragons |
Country of production | Great Britain , Liechtenstein , Germany |
original language | English , German , Chinese |
Publishing year | 1967 |
length | UK: 104 minutes / FRG: 77 minutes |
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Director | Jeremy Summers |
script |
Harry Alan Towers (as Peter Welbeck ) |
production | Harry Alan Towers |
music | Malcolm Lockyer |
camera | John von Kotze |
cut | Donald J. Cohen |
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The Pagoda of the Fifth Horror is a British-German crime film (original title: Five Golden Dragons ) by Harry Alan Towers , who tried to build on the success of the Edgar Wallace films with this film produced in Techniscope and Technicolor . In Germany, the film, which British director Jeremy Summers directed in 1966 on its original locations in Hong Kong , was released in cinemas on August 4, 1967.
action
The leaders of the secret organization "The Five Golden Dragons" are meeting in person for the first time in Hong Kong to share the profits from their flourishing black market businesses . But one of the gentlemen dies, whereupon Mr. Porter, whose lawyer, travels to Hong Kong, where he too is murdered shortly after his arrival. A lead leads the local police to the American playboy and reporter Bob Mitchell, to whom Porter wanted to send a letter before his death. The letter contains the name of the organization in question, which Mitchell soon finds out about. So they kill Margret, who is lying in Mitchell's place in his bed. Margret's sister Ingrid and he try to find out who is responsible for Margaret's death and only narrowly escape the clutches of the organization. The police are looking for Mitchell as a potential murderer of Margaret. In the course of his investigation, Mitchell finally comes across Peterson, a nightclub owner who works for the organization. At the meeting of the chiefs, Peterson wants to use Mitchell as a substitute for the deceased dragon in order to be able to collect the money himself. Since the five leaders do not know each other, they have installed a sophisticated identification system: In the middle of the conference table is a wooden pagoda with five doors. Whose key matches its lock, it can open it and remove its mask. If the key doesn't fit, the weapon clamped behind it will shoot when the door is opened. Mitchell can be persuaded, whereupon all five dragons gather. One by one opens his little door. But the last dragon is shot. Shortly afterwards, the police storm the hall and arrest the four dragons. The dragon killed is not Mitchell, however, but Peterson, whom Mitchell escaped at the last moment, so that he had to slip into the role of the fifth dragon himself.
German version
The much shorter German version, as well as the quality much better original version, at the beginning of 2010 at Koch Media published DVD containing the film as Edgar Wallace thriller applies. Waltraut Lindenau was responsible for editing the German version . Particularly at the beginning of the film, the sequence of images deviates significantly from the original; besides numerous shortened scenes, some shots that are not necessary for the framework have been completely left out.
Others
- Producer Harry Alan Towers also wrote the script under his pseudonym Peter Welbeck .
- After the films " Death Drums on the Great River " (1963), " Sanders and the Ship of Death " (1964) and " The Riddle of the Silver Triangle " (1966), this is Tower's fourth contribution to the Edgar Wallace series, even if this film not based on any template by Edgar Wallace .
- Director Jeremy Summers uses the pseudonym Joachim Linden for the German opening credits .
Web links
- Five Golden Dragons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions German version - Uncut of The Pagode for the fifth horror at Schnittberichte.com