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The Shadow  (1940)

Preceded by


Chapter 13: “Wheels of Death”

Chapter 14: “The Sealed Room”

Chapter 15: “The Shadow’s Net Closes”


Considered by Shadow magazine writer Walter B. Gibson to be the best screen interpretation of the franchise, the action-packed final episodes of the 1940 serial find the crimefighter, aided by Margo Lane and Harry Vincent, in pursuit of notorious mastermind the Black Tiger, even as local citizens believe the Shadow himself to be behind the trail of mayhem.

35mm, b/w, approx. total running time 51 min.  Production: Columbia Pictures Corp.  Distribution: Columbia Pictures Corp.  Director: James W. Horne.  Based on the short stories in The Shadow magazine.  Screenwriter: Joseph Poland, Ned Dandy, Joseph O’Donnell.  Cinematographer: James S. Brown.  Editor: Dwight Caldwell.  Composer: Lee Zahler.  With: Victor Jory, Veda Ann Borg, Roger Moore, Robert Fiske, J. Paul Jones.