THE SHADOW FILMS COLLECTION:

These are all in ok shape, which, from the looks
of them, were taken directly from video tapes!! There
are no closed captions, and there are several jumps
in the movies!! However, these are all a pretty fun
flash from the past, with pretty good stories and
fun sets from years gone by!!

THE SHADOW STRIKES(1937):

In this one, Lamont is apparently unknown by the
police at the start of this!! He gets involved
with them when he interupts a buglary, and he
calls the police for help. He then poses as
the owner of the place being burgled, and the
captain insists on hanging with him! After
parting ways, Lamont ends up at the house of
a certain Mr. Delthern who asks for the help
of the lawyer that Granston(not Cranston!!!)
is posing as, and said Mr. Delthern gets promptly
killed!! This puts The Shadow in a postition
of finding the murderer and keeping the cops
out of his hair!! A+

A review from IMDb.com:

The story, "The Shadow Strikes" is based on "The
Ghost of the Manor" by Walter B. Gibson. The film
is not all that bad but not as good as I was hoping
or expecting it to be. Still worth watching if you
like crime mysteries in general or the old radio show.

Lamont Granston aka The Shadow is on a murder case.
There is a robbery attempt Granston is on the scene
but when a murder is involved Granston assumes the
identity of a lawyer in order to crack the case wide
open. Granston is found out but that does not stop
him from becoming The Shadow and solve the mystery.

Not as good as the radio show but still a fun watch.

6/10 -: Rainey Dawn

Sooo, in this "The Shadow" is a newspaper man
who goes by the name "The Shadow" and who also
has a radio show where he tells of all of the
day's crimes!! He gets wind of a crime about
to happen by his "girl friday" and alerts
the police! Turns out that this was a ruse to
have the police in the wrong place while the
real crime is being comitted!! This gets Lamont
put in jail and, well, watch the movie!! This
is actually really good!! A

A review from IMDb.com:

I enjoy this movie and have watched it several
times (free on Amazon Prime). The colorful characters
and some snappy dialog are what attracts me. The
mystery aspects and especially Rod LaRocque's
cheesy foreign accent (used in a few scenes)
are not.

I like Astrid Allwyn as the young, eager
girl-Friday-wannabe-- slightly ditsy, but not
outlandishly so. She gets off some good lines,
like this: Waiter: More caviar, madame? Astrid
Allwyn: Oh, no! If I eat any more of that buckshot,
I'll pass out!

Lew Hearn as Moe is a colorful character. He
bails out Cranston, and standing outside the
cell, Cranston asks how much he owes him. Moe
says something like, "Is this a place to talk
business? It'll be on your bill."

Thomas E. Jackson is enjoyable as always, as a
gruff, put-upon police commissioner. I remember
him as the gruff, put-upon editor in "Nancy Drew,
Reporter."

And Peter Potter is memorable as Cranston's
assistant, with that sleepy-sounding Oklahoma
drawl of his.

The mystery, the safe-cracking Honest John, and
all that, is not to be dismissed, though there
are some corny aspects of the plot. But all in
all I like this movie and will no doubt watch
it again. - lge-946-225487

While this may not win any awards for story line, acting,
special effects or music, this is still very entertaining!
The real main issue here is that the Shadow, well, isn't!
While he does do a lot of the same crime fighting that
is seen in the comics, his abilities are not anywhere
near that of what's shown in the comics although he
uses his disguise abilities a lot! And really, can't anyone
hit anyone when they're shooting!! LOL! B

From IMDb.com:

Typical Columbia missed opportunity. Silly plot,
director more at home in comedy shorts (and it
shows), and a ludicrous villain with all the real
menace of a banana; but it could have been
bearable if they hadn't changed the Shadow
himself so much. Victor Jory makes the most
of the material, but now he's just a criminologist
who tosses on a cloak and hat and goes around
fighting evil. No invisibility (although the bad
guy CAN), hardly any mocking laughter, just
explosion after explosion trapping him, only
to have him rise from the debris, dust himself
off, and head out the door to the next explosion.
Turn off the lights and go back to the
radio... - Steve Brown

While a pretty good movie about The Shadow, the
character himself is a mear, um, shadow of the
one in the comics! In this Cranston's the nephew of
the polilce commissioner, and the chief of police
doesn't like him at all!! As for the Shadow, no
powers at all, but he is a good detective! There's
a lot of comedy in this, which is ok, but it sometimes
overshadows, the mystery!! Still a fun watch! B+

A review from an IMDb.com customer:

Second attempt at turning the radio character
into a movie series. This time out its Kane
Richmond as Lamont Cranston and his alter ego
the Shadow. Here he has no power to cloud men's
minds, instead he wears a mask and a fedora.
Here he is investigating the smuggling of
jewels in coffins and the deaths the occur
around it.

Very comedic the film has almost no suspense
despite its best efforts. The broad comedy
simply cuts across the mystery and takes away
from feeling of danger. The ploy almost works,
however about two thirds of the way through
the film the mashing of styles becomes too much
and the back and forth nature of the plot
(There are only really three locations, the
commissioner's office, the dead man's house
and a warehouse) interest dissipates and you
get the feeling you'd really like to just jump
to the end to see who the killer is.

Worth trying but only on cable. - dbborroughs

Same characters that were in the previous
movie, with the focus on a newsman who's
making money on the side by blackmailing
those with secrets to hide!! He gets killed
and all the clues points to The Shadow!! Oh,
and Lamont and Margo are getting married!
BTW, this is totally polically incorrect!! LOL! B+

A review from IMDb.com:

Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, has his
hands full as the murder of blackmailing
reporter Jeff Mann is blamed on him.

After having seen "The Shadow" with Alec
Baldwin, I felt it was important to seek
out older incarnations. This one was on
Netflix, so it was easy to pick. And, while
I enjoyed it, it also lacks the crime-fighting
elements that I enjoyed with the newer version.

The Shadow here does not seem to have any
powers, or even much charisma. He is just
a rich guy with a butler. And Margo Lane
is more on his case here, coming off as a
nag. I like her better in the newer version,
as well. It may not be fair to compare a
film from 1946 with one made 50 years
later... but what choice do I have? There
is still much to enjoy here, but I cannot
see this as a lost treasure. - gavin6942

Last of the Shadow series of movies with Kane Richmond
as the Shadow!! This has all the same actors returning
for their third and final turn! The real problem here
is that you only see the Shadow ONCE!! This is a decent
'who-dun-it" movie, but as a Shadow movie, not so much! B

A review from IMDb.com:

I have "The Shadow" radio series starring Orson
Welles, so I was interested to see Lamont Cranston
on film. This was my first one, and I have to say,
I enjoyed it. I really liked Kane Richmond, who
resembles the actor Donnelly Rhodes - very handsome
with a nice quality. George Chandler plays his major
domo Shrevvie, and Barbara Read is Margo - a much
different characterization from the radio show.
Read was married to William Talman of "Perry
Mason" and committed suicide when she was 45.

This plot concerns murder and mayhem over the
disappearance of a jade statue.

Unfortunately we didn't get to see much of "The
Shadow." He appears very briefly only a few times.

Entertaining. - blanche-2

This is pretty short, as it was a TV episode!!
This is about a woman that gets killed and the
police are having problems finding the murderer
so they go to Lamont Cranston, a psychologist that
is under contract by them when they get stuck!
This actually has the Shadow using several of his
abilities from his bag of tricks in this!! Because
this is so short, there is little time to develope
the story or the characters! Still, an interesting
curio from years gone by! B-

A review from IMDb.com:

i enjoyed this 25 minute pilot TV episode for the
proposed The Shadow TV series that never materialized.
it's well paced,well written.unfortunately they never
made the series this pilot episode was based on.however,
judging by this episode the TV series might have been
pretty good.Tom Helmore plays Lamont Cranston/The Shadow,
and does a pretty good job,though for a few minutes,his
accent kinda distracted me.but once you get past that,
everything else works pretty good.Paula Raymond plays
Margot Lane and is good in her portrayal.they packed
quite a bit into the short 25 minute running time,and
i wish they had continued on with the series,as it
would have been interesting to see where it went from
there.oh,well.anyway,for me,The Case of the Cotton
Kimono is a 7/10 - disdressed12

Lamont is here, but no Margo Lane! A TV pilot
turned movie, this has the Shadow headed to New
Orleans to help a friend who calls him up to help
him out of a jam that he's gotten into from talking
with a former ruler of a Latin American nation who
needs some help to get back to his country!

And as with several other of the later Shadow
incarnations, the actual character of the Shadow
isn't seen here much, if at all!! Cranston uses
his power to confuse, and to "disappear", but
he's never in costume!!

A side note here, The Shadow is played by Richard
Derr, who was in two Star Trek: TOS episodes, "The
Alternative Factor" and "The Mark Of Gideon"! B

A review from IMDb.com:

A nice waste of an hour. The acting was passable,
though the Shadow's mentor guy was a little creepy.
The plot was mostly predictable with a few plausibility
issues. (Yeah, we're going to show what we believe
to be an execution on television.) Having listened
to quite a few episodes of the radio Shadow, my
conclusion is the Shadow does best when operating
like a Super Hero, as he did with Orson Welles in
the lead. When the Shadow operates as a shamus with
a special trick, it's a lot cheaper.

This is okay, but if it was a pilot for a TV show,
I can see why it didn't make it. Still, for fans
of the Shadow, this is a rare opportunity to see
an attempt at bringing that mysterious voice to
film. - Adam Graham

These are with the great Orson Wells as Lamont/
The Shadow!! Each episode is about 25-30 minutes
long and include the original advertisement spots!
The episodes:

Sept. 26, 1937 - Death House Rescue
Oct. 24, 1937 - The Temple Bells of Neban
Nov. 28, 1937 - Circle Of Death
Jan. 23, 1938 - Sabaotage
Jan. 30, 1938 - The Society Of The Living Dead
Feb. 08, 1938 - The Poison Death
Feb. 20, 1938 - The Hounds In The Hills
Mar. 20, 1938 - The White Legion
July 10, 1938 - The White God
July 17, 1938 - Aboard The Steamship Amazon
July 31, 1938 - Message From The Hills
Aug. 07, 1938 - The Creeper
Aug. 14, 1938 - The Tenor With A Broken Voice

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