Roar of the Dragon is a 1932 American Pre-Code adventure film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Howard Estabrook and released on July 8, 1932.

The film stars Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, Arline Judge, and ZaSu Pitts.

Before the film begins, a bandit named Voronsky had attacked a tourist riverboat captained by Chauncey Carson.

Carson and the passengers escaped and fled to a Chinese village in Manchuria, staying in a hotel while waiting for boat repairs.

Carson and his passengers rescue a group of children and an injured man named Sholem, bringing them into the hotel and locking the courtyard gates.

Matters become more desperate for the group trapped at the hotel when they run out of food and the water supply is purposefully spilled.

Heartbroken, Busby decides to operate the machine gun so he can seek justice by killing Voronsky's men.

Later, Sholem sneaks from the hotel to retrieve food from his butcher shop, but he is assaulted by Voronsky's men and burned alive.

Its storyline was developed and written by Merian C. Cooper and Jane Bigelow, who based it on A Passage to Hong Kong by George Kibbe Turner.

[6] In June the production team added a sequence of newspaper headlines to the film's beginning that discuss its eventual circumstances and outcomes.

Ned Depinet, the executive sales manager, was dissatisfied with this because he felt that "while [Horton] is reputed to be an excellent actor, he has not five cents worth of box office".

[10]: 127  At the time, Hollywood was pushing to increase its volume of "Oriental pictures", creating a goal to provide 30,000 workdays for Chinese American film extras.

[8]: 50  The Film Daily called it a "choppy tale" and "wild melodrama" whose "direction [was] handicapped" by the story.

[12] The New York Times wrote that "it has the same old plot, the same situations,...[as] those of the past", and considered it "a bloody affair, and a loud one".

[13] Motion Picture Herald held a more favorable view, calling it "a vivid story, bristling with action, tingling with dramatic suspense".

It predicted that the film would do well in the box office, also praising the "sweet tinge of ZaSu Pitts' comedy".

Jewell and Harbin credit Gwili as "one of the damaging weaknesses", while stating that Horton and Pitts "had very thin material with which to work" in comedic elements.