The Shadow (1954)

The Shadow

1954

TV Movie Adventure

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Charles F. Haas

Cast

Alexander Scourby as Rollo Grimbauer

Frank M. Thomas as Commissioner Weston

Leona Powers as The Landlady

Norman Shelly as Detective Harris

Paula Raymond as Margot Lane

Peggy Lobbin as Cissy Chadwick

Tom Helmore as Lamont Cranston

William Smithers as Alex Bromm