Rating: PG13
Genre:
Fantasy
Release Date: 11/19/1997
SubTitles: Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1
Run Time: 108 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
A crime fighter created in the 1930s and popularized in movies, pulp novels, and a radio show starring a young
Orson Welles,
The Shadow came back to life in 1994 in this slick, well-cast production.
Alec Baldwin stars as Lamont Cranston, a murderous opium dealer reformed by a Tibetan mystic, who teaches him how to use his keen mental powers to manipulate others. As penance for his past misdeeds, Cranston masquerades as a degenerate New York City playboy by day and secretly plays the heroic Shadow by night, staving off evildoers with a network of agents and a cab-driving sidekick (
Peter Boyle). A greater challenge arrives when Cranston must fight Shiwan Khan (
John Lone), the final descendent of Genghis Khan, who has received training from the same Tibetan master who instructed Cranston. Shiwan plans to use atomic weapons to take over New York and then the world. At the same time, Cranston meets socialite Margo Lane (
Penelope Ann Miller), and, although he's instantly enamored of her, he discovers that her psychic abilities render his secret identity vulnerable.
The Shadow was directed by former music video creator
Russell Mulcahy, whose feature film debut
Highlander (1986) was a cult classic.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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A Classic Pulp-Fiction Crimefighter Resurfaces.
Based on the classic radio series that originally starred Orson Welles. Alec Baldwin stars as Lamont Cranston, a reformed satanic cult leader-turned-New York City playboy, who becomes a sinister mysterious crimefighter known as The Shadow, who battles the evil Shiwan Khan (John Lone), who plans to conquer the world with the ultimate weapon: The Atomic Bomb! Also starring Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Jonathan Winters, Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, Sab Shimono, Andre Gregory, Max Wright, James Hong, Arsenio "Sonny" Trinidad, Joseph Maher, John Kapelos, Brady Tsurutani and Kate McGregor-Stewart.
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