The Shadow

The Shadow

The Shadow

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The Shadow

1954

0h 25m

4.5(2 votes)

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Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.

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8 members

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Tom Helmore

Lamont Cranston

Tom Helmore

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Paula Raymond

Margot Lane

Paula Raymond

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Frank M. Thomas

Commissioner Weston

Frank M. Thomas

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Alexander Scourby

Rollo Grimbauer

Alexander Scourby

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Norman Shelly

Detective Harris

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William Smithers

Alex Bromm

William Smithers

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Leona Powers

The Landlady

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Peggy Lobbin

Cissy Chadwick

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