The Shadow

Mar 2, 1933

1h 3m

★ 5.6

The Shadow Kills to Thrill!

Overview

A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.

Genres

Mystery

Production Companies

Real Art Productions

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Cast

Reggie Ogden

Henry Kendall

Sonia Bryant

Elizabeth Allan

Sir Richard Bryant

Felix Aylmer

Moya Silverton

Jeanne Stuart

Jim Silverton

Cyril Raymond

Mrs. Bascomb

Viola Compton

Detective Inspector Carr

John Turnbull

Chief Inspector Elliot

Ralph Truman

Chief Inspector Fleming

Denis Cowles

Wallis

Vincent Holman

Beverley Kent

James Raglan

Willit

Gordon Begg

Jesus and Maria José live together in the grand house that belonged to their recently deceased father. Their playful routine is disrupted when Magdalena, their half sister on their dad’s side, returns from Spain asking for her share of the inheritance. What are they going to do about this interloper into their dangerous folie à deux?

6.1

The Shadow

Jul 1, 1994

Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "the power to cloud men's minds", The Shadow comes blazing to the rescue with explosive results.

6.5

Burnt Offerings

Oct 18, 1976

A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time someone gets hurt on the grounds, the beat-up house seems to repair itself.

0.0

Trapped

Oct 28, 1931

The Shadow's second movie short, an adaptation from a Ray Humphreys story, "The Cat's Paw," from Detective Story Magazine.

5.9

The Bat

Aug 9, 1959

Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". Meanwhile, the house's owner, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities and has hidden the proceeds in the house, but is killed before he can retrieve it.

0.0

The Week End Mystery

Dec 1, 1931

During a rainstorm at a remote manor house, Richard Crayell plays host to several guests. At nine o'clock sharp, he excuses himself from the card table to take his medicine, promising to return soon. When he doesn't, Claire goes in search of him, and finds his door locked from the inside.

5.3

Curse of the Crimson Altar

Dec 1, 1968

When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming, and his niece more demonstrably so, Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.

6.2

Night of the Skull

Sep 29, 1974

After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding family members gather for a reading of the will, setting into motion an increasingly chilling series of deaths when their arrival is marked by a second grisly killing.

7.1

The Spiral Staircase

Jan 26, 1946

On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.

4.3

The Living Ghost

Aug 11, 1942

A detective investigating kidnapping case discovers the victim, who may be a zombie.

6.9

The Uninvited

Feb 24, 1944

A brother and sister move into an old seaside house that has been abandoned for many years on the Cornwellian coast. They soon discover that it is haunted by the ghost of the mother of their neighbor's granddaughter, with whom the brother has fallen in love.

5.6

Toolbox Murders

Nov 12, 2004

Young couple Steve and Nell move into a once fashionable but now decaying apartment block in Hollywood, and soon realise that a number of young residents have met unusually violent deaths. Before long, Nell makes some disturbing discoveries about the building's manager and her fellow tenants.

6.5

The Black Cat

May 2, 1941

Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.

3.0

Castle of Evil

Nov 1, 1966

The relatives of a recently deceased man gather at his eerie mansion but before his will can be read, they start being murdered one by one.

6.8

The Cat and the Canary

Aug 20, 1927

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.

5.1

The Invisible Avenger

Dec 2, 1958

Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.

6.3

The Hidden Hand

Nov 7, 1942

Eccentric wealthy old woman Lorinda Channing uses her insane brother, John Channing, to help her frighten their greedy relatives after her money.

4.4

The Shadow Strikes

Oct 29, 1937

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.

6.2

Night Monster

Oct 20, 1942

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

4.1

The Monster Walks

Feb 7, 1932

Ruth Earlton has come home to her ancestral mansion to claim her inheritance. Accompanied by her boyfriend, she discovers that her father died suddenly under suspicious circumstances. Now it's her turn, as her deranged and relentless uncle targets her for death with the help of his wife and son, plus a very unhappy ape.