tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post4815998108560319325..comments2024-03-28T10:33:39.051-07:00Comments on Horror Movie A Day: Black Dragons (1942)BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-36559035066926798302008-05-30T07:29:00.000-07:002008-05-30T07:29:00.000-07:00Of course a lot of these poverty row flicks used t...Of course a lot of these poverty row flicks used the same template, as the studios were just churning them out by the week--and without TV or VCRs or DVDs, I guess the audiences didn't mind or revolved enough for it not to matter.<BR/><BR/>As to the "Japs" thing, I had the same shock recently watching a gift DVD set of the 1940s Batman serials. In one of the early ones a camera pans over a deserted "Asiantown" in Gotham, while the narrator intones enthusiastically, "After a WISE GOVERNMENT interred all the SHIFTY-EYED JAPS, Asiantown was a ghost town!"<BR/><BR/>Makes Mickey Rooney's turn in <I>Breakfast at Tiffany's</I> look positively progressive.The Vicar of VHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06832137990485130735noreply@blogger.com