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1 July 1994 (USA) moreTagline:
The Shadow Knows! morePlot:
In 30's New York City, the Shadow battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan, who is building an atomic bomb. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(11 articles)
Sam Raimi talks Spider-Man 4 and his love for The Shadow (From The Geek Files. 29 May 2009, 5:09 AM, PDT)
Jean Claude Van Damme Fights Vinnie Jones
(From Cinema Blend. 13 May 2009, 1:53 AM, PDT)
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Fun Film, Beautiful Looking, Great Performances moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Alec Baldwin | ... | Lamont Cranston / The Shadow | |
| John Lone | ... | Shiwan Khan | |
| Penelope Ann Miller | ... | Margo Lane | |
| Peter Boyle | ... | Moe Shrevnitz | |
| Ian McKellen | ... | Dr. Reinhardt Lane | |
| Tim Curry | ... | Farley Claymore | |
| Jonathan Winters | ... | Wainwright Barth | |
| Sab Shimono | ... | Dr. Tam | |
| Andre Gregory | ... | Burbank | |
| Brady Tsurutani | ... | Tulku | |
| James Hong | ... | Li Peng | |
| Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad | ... | Wu | |
| Joseph Maher | ... | Isaac Newboldt | |
| John Kapelos | ... | Duke Rollins | |
| Max Wright | ... | Berger |
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Rated PG-13 for fantasy action violence.Parents Guide:
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108 min | Canada:93 min (edited version)Country:
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EnglishColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
Australia:M (TV rating) | Australia:PG | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-14 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:12 | USA:PG-13 | Germany:12 (video rating) | Singapore:PGFun Stuff
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The billboard of the 'Smoking man' is a parody of a real one that actually blew 'smoke' rings...the original was for 'Camel' cigarettes, whose motto was "I'd walk a mile for a 'Camel'!"; the 'Llama' cigarette motto parodies this with "I'd climb a mountain for a 'Llama'!" moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the tank scene, the gunshots are on one side of the tank. However, when Claymore locks the door, there are gunshot holes beside the door. This is further shown to be wrong when The Shadow breathes through the bullet holes. He has to swim across the filled tank to get back to the door. However, when Margo arrives at the door, there are bullet holes right next to her. moreQuotes:
Margo Lane: We need each other.Lamont Cranston: No we don't.
Margo Lane: We have a connection.
Lamont Cranston: No we don't.
Margo Lane: Then how can you explain that I can read your thoughts?
Lamont Cranston: My thoughts are hard to miss.
Margo Lane: And why is that?
Lamont Cranston: Psychically, I'm very well endowed.
Margo Lane: I'll bet you are.
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Before BATMAN, there was THE SHADOW. In the history of troubled billionaires donning disguises at night, THE SHADOW told the story of Lamont Cranston before Bruce Wayne's story filled DC Comics' pages. Finally, in 1994, the long-running radio drama came to life on the big screen in one of the best adaptations since Tim Burton brought The Dark Knight to the silver screen in 1989. For some reason, the movie never caught on with the public; maybe not as many people remembered the radio version as I did. I loved it, though; I could watch this film again and again.
Alec Baldwin (BEETLEJUICE, HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER) plays Lamont Cranston, a former drug lord who is captured by a Tibetan monk and retrained to fight evil as his penance for doing it. Cranston's power is a kind of hypnotic telepathy; he has the power to "cloud men's minds", which he uses to make himself invisible to evildoers except for his shadow (because light itself can never be fooled).
Cranston lives an exciting double life in what is apparently a glamorized version of the 30's, playing the town as a billionaire playboy and building up a secret network of helpers from those he saves as The Shadow (each identified with a silver fire opal ring given them upon their rescue), until he meets his match in two ways: Cranston loses his heart to enchanting-but-scatterbrained Margo Lane (Penelope Ann Miller), and The Shadow must fight his evil counterpart, Shiwan Khan (John Lone), last descendant of Genghis Khan, who has a hypnotic telepathy of his own and is seeking to bring life as we know it to an end using elements that have never been combined before (Dr. Roy Tam to Cranston: "I guess you'd call it an implosive-explosive-submolecular destruction device." Cranston: "Or an 'atomic bomb'." Tam: "Hey, that's catchy.").
Forget trying to follow the plot; like BATMAN, the plot isn't the point. The point is the look and feel of the movie, and this movie has glamour and pizazz to spare. 1930's New York City has NEVER looked better. The special effects are brilliant (at one point, as water rises in an enclosed room, the invisible Shadow's legs make deep dents in the rising water) and very well used throughout, so that they are not intrusive but rather a part of the story. Like BATMAN, there's also a large assortment of anachronistic gadgetry (pneumatic tubes delivering messages over a sophisticated network, video phones, elaborate neon billboards) that somehow work with the story as well. And the acting--Baldwin, Miller, Lone, Peter Boyle as Cranston's driver, Tim Curry as an evil scientist in league with Lone, Ian McKellen as Margo's father, another scientist whose discoveries are exploited by Khan--is also first-rate. THE SHADOW is the perfect Saturday Night movie: Fun to watch, attractive-looking, and not terribly taxing on the brain. Go see it.