The Shadow

Action adventure set in 1930s New York about a reformed criminal who becomes a superhero. With the aid of a beautiful female friend, a playboy millionaire with a dark past sets out to bring the evil Shiwan Khan to justice. But Khan is a deadly descendant of Genghis Khan and will not surrender his plans of world domination without a fight., Action adventure story, set in 1930s New York, about a reformed criminal who becomes a superhero. With the aid of a beautiful female friend, a playboy millionaire with a dark past sets out to bring the evil Shiwan Khan to justice. But his quarry, who is determined to attain world domination, is a deadly descendant of Genghis Khan and will not surrender without a fight., In the 1930’s, the Shadow works to foil a villain’s plans for world domination. Keeping his mystical alter ego a secret becomes increasingly difficult for playboy Lamont Cranston as he falls for a scientist’s daughter, who has psychic abilities. Based on the character created by Walter B. Gibson., 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., Special-effects fantasy about a reformed criminal who becomes a superhero. With his beautiful female friend, the Shadow sets out to bring the evil Shiwan Khan to justice, but his quarry is a deadly relative of Genghis Khan and will not surrender without a fight., “Khan conquered half the world. My task is to finish the job.” Villainous Shiwan, the last survivor of Genghis Khan, announces his criminal manifesto. Lamont Cranston is the man beneath the cape who plans to stop him., The legendary pulp novel and radio crimefighter comes to the screen as he matches his occult powers against the evil Shiwan Khan., Lamont Carston, alias The Shadow, and his network of agents, do battle with ancient warrior Shiwan Khan in 1930’s New York., Playboy Lamont Cranston uses psychic abilities to foil a villain’s plans for world domination.