International Crime

Apr 23, 1938

1h 2m

★ 5.4

Crime didn't pay when this master detective stepped in!

Overview

The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.

Genres

Mystery

Crime

Science Fiction

Production Companies

Grand National Pictures

International Crime Trailers

No Trailers found.

Cast

Lamont Cranston / The Shadow

Rod La Rocque

Phoebe Lane

Astrid Allwyn

Commisioner Weston

Thomas E. Jackson

Heath

Oscar O'Shea

Moe

Lew Hearn

Flotow

Wilhelm von Brincken

Starkhov

Tenen Holtz

Honest John

William Pawley

Burke

Peter Potter

Roger Morton

John St. Polis

Bootblack

Nick Stewart

Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.

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