THE SHADOW - INTERNATIONAL CRIME(1938)
In the set: 100 Greatest Mystery Classics
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
Rod La Rocque ... Lamont Cranston
Astrid Allwyn ... Phoebe Lane
Thomas E. Jackson ... Commissioner Weston (as Thomas Jackson)
Oscar O'Shea ... Heath
Lew Hearn ... Moe
Wilhelm von Brincken ... Flotow (as Wm. von Brincken)
Tenen Holtz ... Starkhov
William Pawley ... Honest John (as Wm. Pawley)
Peter Potter ... Burke (as Wm. Moore)
John St. Polis ... Roger Morton
Jack Baxley ... Matthews
Walter Bonn ... Steffen
Harry C. Bradley ... Barrows (as Harry Bradley)
Will Stanton ... Lush
Ernie Adams ... Jail Prisoner (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham ... Officer Frank McKay (uncredited)
Jack Chefe ... Waiter (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps ... Weston's Assistant (uncredited)
Lester Dorr ... Radio Operator (uncredited)
Edward Hearn ... Policeman (uncredited)
James C. Morton ... Radio Listener (uncredited)
Frank Nelson ... E.R.O.M. Announcer (uncredited)
Paul Panzer ... Morton's Butler (uncredited)
Harry Semels ... Violinist (uncredited)
Nick Stewart ... Shoeshine Boy (uncredited)
Lloyd Whitlock ... Attorney (uncredited)
Robert J. Wilke ... Bar Patron (uncredited)
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