The Shadow

The Shadow

1954•25m•4.5/10

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4.5/10(2)

Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.

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Production

Meridian Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Tom Helmore

Tom Helmore

Lamont Cranston

Paula Raymond

Paula Raymond

Margot Lane

Frank M. Thomas

Frank M. Thomas

Commissioner Weston

Alexander Scourby

Alexander Scourby

Rollo Grimbauer

Norman Shelly

Detective Harris

William Smithers

William Smithers

Alex Bromm

Leona Powers

The Landlady

Peggy Lobbin

Cissy Chadwick

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