"Five Golden Dragons" was one of a number of lighthearted spy and action films released during the second half of the 1960s.A year earlier, in April 1966, two other films were released in London with a similar plot of a tourist being chased by assassins — "A Man Could Get Killed", directed by Cliff Owen and Ronald Neame and starring James Garner as well as Harry Alan Towers' "Our Man in Marrakesh", directed by Don Sharp and starring Tony Randall, with Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee and uncredited Maria Rohm in supporting roles.