Monthly Archives: January 2025

At least for observers of the political scene, especially for those who know Tesla is run by Mr Trump’s advisor Elon Musk. Noted on CNN today:

Tesla Cybertruck explodes at entrance of Trump Hotel in Las Vegas

Maybe I was supposed to meet him around back for a quick bite?

Black Dragons (1942) is all about five businessman and a doctor hosting their meeting, who gather at the start of World War II to discuss how to conduct the War to …. just what, exactly? The conversation perhaps bears closer examination. There’s some other dude who says he needs to talk to the doc, toot suite (yeah, I guessed on the spelling there), so he’s visiting the doc at home, claiming an acquaintanceship, but the doc says he’s old and doesn’t remember him. Kinda dull.

Wait. This is all about five businessman and a doctor who refuses to leave his room, due to illness, his butler, the dude, and his daughter, home from college. And then one of the businessmen is dead, body found on the entryway to the Japanese embassy.

Wait for it. Salt with a newly promoted FBI agent who gets the hots for the daughter, a butler, and a raid on the doctor’s house.

And another body of a businessman at the door to the Japanese embassy. (They’re not the welcoming sort, so we never see them.)

Waaaaait. That’s more than one, now. One body, that is. Now we have two more bodies. And a doctor, dragged from his room, and gunfire, and flashbacks, and more dead bodies. And a daughter who is not related to the doctor. How did the story tellers think that was going work out?

Too bad the movie just didn’t quite work out. Pity that. I think there was too much dependence on dislike for the Japanese, which, in retrospect, seems a bit like cheating. But if you’re a Bela Lugosi completist, you’ll have to watch anyways. He’s quite the charmer in this one.