The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Practical Effects
Invisibility via black velvet and wishful thinking. Cinema magic, baby.
Acting
Victor Jory's cranium game is strong. That forehead? Oscar-worthy.
Production
Depression-era sets built from cardboard and pure desperation.
Director
James W. Horne
Victor Jory
Lamont Cranston / The Shadow
Veda Ann Borg
Margo Lane
Roger Moore
Harry Vincent
Robert Fiske
Stanford Marshall
Chuck Hamilton
Henchman Roberts
Edward Peil Sr.
Inspector Joe Cardona
Frank LaRue
Commissioner Ralph Weston
Philip Ahn
Wu Yung
Griff Barnett
Stephen Prescott
Dick Botiller
Green
Budd Buster
Beggar Giving Cranston Tip on Radio Shop
Joe Caits
Radio Shop Henchman
Horace B. Carpenter
Hijacked Car Driver
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the final Shadow serial from Columbia Pictures. The character wouldn't return to screens until Alec Baldwin's infamous 1994 flop.
The Shadow originated on radio in 1930, with Orson Welles voicing the character for a year—making this film the inferior visual cousin to actual art.
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