The Shadow Strikes (1937)
Scourge of the underworld!
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 must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.
- Date of release
- 1937-10-29
- TMDB
- 4.7 / 10 (22)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- Lynn Shores
- Collection
- The Shadow Collection
Casting
- Rod La Rocque — Lamont Cranston / The Shadow
- Agnes Anderson — Marcia Delthern
- James Blakeley — Jasper Delthern
- Walter McGrail — Winstead Comstock
- William Kellogg — Humphrey Comstock
- Cy Kendall — Brossett
- Kenneth Harlan — Captain Breen
- Norman Ainsley — Hendricks
- John St. Polis — Caleb Delthern
- Wilson Benge — Wellington
- John Carnivale — Warren Berranger
- James C. Morton — Kelly
Interesting facts
The Shadow Strikes is a 1937 black and white American film based on the story "The Ghost of the Manor" written by Walter B. Gibson under the pen name Maxwell Grant. The Shadow was featured on a popular radio show and also as a pulp magazine crime fighter.
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