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The Shadow Strikes (1937)

Mystery | 61 minutes
1,50 3 votes

Genre: Mystery

Duration: 61 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Lynn Shores

Stars: Rod La Rocque, Agnes Anderson and James Blakeley

IMDb score: 4,9 (641)

Releasedate: 29 October 1937

The Shadow Strikes plot

"Scourge of the underworld!"

A rich man is murdered while writing his will. Lamont Cranston (aka the Shadow) finds several suspects, each with their own motive for committing the murder. A trail of clues leads him to an underground gambling organization linked to the killer.

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Lamont Granston

Marcia Delthern

Jasper Delthern

Winstead Comstock

Humphrey Comstock

Captain Breen

Caleb Delthern

Wellington

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One of the films with which the character of The Shadow attempted to make the transition to the big screen, but it was not a great success for either the mysterious hero (whom we only see very briefly anyway) or lead actor Rod La Rocque (what a name!). The plot is complicated and the pace is high, but La Rocque is an unappealing actor, the suspects make little impression, the direction is nothing special, the Shadow is only on screen for a very short time anyway, and you can barely see the perpetrator coming due to the bizarre motivation that is never mentioned. A very mediocre, run-of-the-mill B-movie with a lead actor whose career, after a promising start, had since slipped from the A-list to the B-list, plus a string of supporting actors who undoubtedly hoped for better times but whose expectations were not met in any of the cases, even though we do see decent performances here from Norman Ainsley as Rod La Rocque's nervous but resourceful assistant, Agnes (here Lynn) Anderson as the beautiful Marcia, and as gang leader the portly Cy Kendall, whose unfavorable looks inevitably destined him for villainous roles – bright spots in an otherwise not particularly interesting whodunit.

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