The Black Dragons (1942)

"The Black Dragons" is an excellent representation of the film noir period of the 1940's and is a significantly more in-depth film for the creator, the famous horror genre pioneer Bela Lugosi, as an actor, as well as a director. Bela Lugosi is probably best known for his role as Count Dracula in "Dracula" and for his work with other famous monsters, such as the Wolf Man and Frankensteins Monster.
"The Black Dragons" follows an incredibly deep and involved plot in which he plays a plastic surgeon who transforms six members of the Black Dragon Society in Japan into lookalikes of 6 famous industrialists in America. The Black Dragon Society plans to infiltrate major American industries before the war. However, their plan backfires when they make the mistake of locking up Dr. Melcher (Lugosi) who kills the other occupant of his cell and takes his face for his own (metaphorically of course). So Dr. Melcher goes to America with the face of Monsieur Colomb (his cell mate) in order to extinguish the presence of the Black Dragon Society in America.
Of course none of this makes sense until the end of the movie when the motives and past on Monsieur Colomb are revealed. Throughout the entire movie it appears to the viewer that something strange is definitely at work, but it is unclear who the culprit is or what his or her motives are. "The Black Dragons" gets a 4/5 for being an great old movie.