The fifth horror pagoda

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Movie
German title The fifth horror pagoda
Original title Five Golden Dragons
The pagoda of the fifth horror Logo 001.svg
Country of production Great Britain , Liechtenstein , Germany
original language English , German , Chinese
Publishing year 1967
length UK: 104 minutes /
FRG: 77 minutes
Rod
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
occupation

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.

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