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The Shadow Strikes (1937)
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Release Date:
29 October 1937 (USA) moreTagline:
Scourge of the underworld!Plot:
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Not great, not a bomb either. moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Rod La Rocque | ... | Lamont Granston (The Shadow) |
| Agnes Anderson | ... | Marcia Delthern (as Lynn Anders) |
| James Blakeley | ... | Jasper Delthern |
| Walter McGrail | ... | Winstead Comstock |
| Bruce Kellogg | ... | Humphrey Comstock (as Bill Kellogg) |
| Cy Kendall | ... | Barney Grossett |
| Kenneth Harlan | ... | Captain Breen |
| Norman Ainsley | ... | Henry Hendricks |
| John St. Polis | ... | Mr. Caleb Delthern |
| Wilson Benge | ... | Wellington |
| John Carnivale | ... | Warran Berringer |
| James C. Morton | ... | Detective Kelly (as James Morton) |
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61 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #3426)MOVIEmeter: 
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Continuity: The credits spell Cranston with a G. A newspaper headline within the movie does the same thing. moreFAQ
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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.