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International Crime (1938) -- Lamont Cranston, amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper...

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Director:
Writers:
Theodore S. Tinsley (story)
Jack Natteford (screenplay)
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Release Date:
23 April 1938 (USA) more
Tagline:
CRIME DIDN'T PAY WHEN THIS MASTER DETECTIVE STEPPED IN! (original poster - all caps)
Plot:
Lamont Cranston, amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Rod La Rocque ... Lamont Cranston (The Shadow)
Astrid Allwyn ... Phoebe Lane
Thomas E. Jackson ... Commissioner Weston (as Thomas Jackson)
Oscar O'Shea ... Editor Heath
Wilhelm von Brincken ... Flotow (as William von Brincken)
William Pawley ... Honest John
Walter Bonn ... Stefan, Flotow's Driver
Peter Potter ... Burke (as William Moore)
Lew Hearn ... Moe Shrevnitz the Cabbie

Tenen Holtz ... Starkhov
John St. Polis ... Roger Morton
Lloyd Whitlock ... Attorney
Jack Baxley ... Det. Inspector Matthews
Paul Panzer ... Morton's Butler
Harry C. Bradley ... Barrows (as Harry Bradley)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
62 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono | Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
Canada:G (Ontario) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | USA:Approved (PCA #4010)

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Trivia:
Based on #118 of The Shadow magazine (January 1, 1937), titled "Foxhound" and written by Theodore S. Tinsley (under the usual pseudonym of "Maxwell Grant"). more
Quotes:
Phoebe Lane: This is going to be thrilling, isn't it, Mr. Cranston?
Lamont Cranston: Yes, and dangerous, too. Particularly for you.
Phoebe Lane: For me? Why?
Lamont Cranston: Well, when the crooks start shooting it seems they pick off the girl first.
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Movie Connections:
Follows The Shadow Strikes (1937) more

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Why does IMDb credit Theodore S. Tinsley for having the pseudonym "Maxwell Grant" and for writing this movie's original story?
List: "The Shadow" radio episodes
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11 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
The Shadow turns celebrity newspaper columnist, 24 May 2004
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Author: GazHack from Bolton, England

A strange little offshoot of the Shadow mythos. Definitely the better of the two Shadow movies starring Rod La Rocque. This time, Lamont Cranston is a crusading crime journalist who writes a daily column entitled "The Shadow"! He does not wear the famous cloak and slouch hat, has no mind powers and everybody knows that he is the Shadow. His assistant is Phoebe Lane, who is cute and dizzy and not much relation to the superior Margo Lane at all. The film is based on the wise-cracking style of "The Thin Man" and occasionally delivers a genuinely funny moment. But for the most part this is a pretty dull murder mystery involving foreign agents. Completely lacking in the film noir, supernatural atmosphere of the radio series and the magazine. A curiosity but hardly The Shadow we know and love.

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