The Shadow Strikes

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Agnes Anderson and Rod La Rocque in The Shadow Strikes (1937)

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston takes on an impersonation of... Read allLamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston takes on an impersonation of the attorney.Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston takes on an impersonation of the attorney.

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Rod La Rocque

Lamont Cranston

Agnes Anderson

Marcia Delthern
(as Lynn Anders)

James Blakeley

Jasper Delthern

Walter McGrail

Winstead Comstock

Bruce Kellogg

Humphrey Comstock
(as Bill Kellogg)

Cy Kendall

Brossett

Kenneth Harlan

Captain Breen

Norman Ainsley

Hendricks

John St. Polis

Caleb Delthern

Wilson Benge

Wellington

John Carnivale

Warran Berranger

James C. Morton

Kelly
(as James Morton)

John Dilson

Bill Gordon
(uncredited)

John Elliott

Chester Randall
(uncredited)

Harry Harvey

1st Reporter
(uncredited)

Lew Hicks

Cop
(uncredited)

Jack Ingram

Red Hogan
(uncredited)

Bob Reeves

Police Officer
(uncredited)

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Trivia
A loose and condensed adaptation of The Shadow Magazine issue 'The Ghost of the Manor' (Cover Date of June 15, 1933)

Goofs
The credits spell "Cranston" with a G. A newspaper headline within the movie does the same thing. Yet the character is referred to as "Cranston" by the other characters.

Connections
Edited into Who Dunit Theater: The Shadow Strikes (2021)

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Not great, not a bomb either.

The Shadow has a mustache?!

The film doesn't really introduce either Lamont Cranston or The Shadow, but seems to assume the audience knows them already. Editing and cinematography are pretty poor, as is the writing and acting. Cranston/The Shadow is surprisingly careless, doesn't laugh, doesn't say "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men...The Shadow knows," or "the weed of crime bears bitter fruit," and appears to lack "the power to cloud men's minds." He evidently has only one servant, not a whole network.

A subplot involving the mystery of Cranston's father's death is barely explored and seems an afterthought, despite the film's suggesting this may have been the reason for the genesis of The Shadow.

Still, it's sort of fun.