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The Missing Lady
A Mystery Thrill-Treat from the Annals of The Shadow
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While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
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Directed by Phil Karlson
Kane RichmondLamont Cranston / The Shadow
Barbara ReadMargo Lane
George ChandlerShrevvie
James FlavinPolice Insp. Cardona
Pierre WatkinPolice Commissioner Weston
Dorothea KentJennie Delaney
Almira SessionsMiss Effie
Nora CecilMiss Millie
James CardwellTerry Blake
Claire CarletonRose Dawson
Jo-Carroll DennisonGilda Marsh
Frances RobinsonAnne WalshIn this series · The Shadow
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CinemaSerfDec 10, 2024
So Kane Richmond takes top billing as the "Shadow/Cranston" but it's really "Miss Effie" (Almira Sessions) and "Miss Millie" (Nora Cecil) who steal the scenes as the busy-body lift operators who shimmy around in perfectly symmetrical attire running one of those counter-weight elevators that has a mind of it's own as they entrap their "passengers" whilst they accrue all the gossip. The rest of the plot is all centred on rather a silly misunderstanding between our sleuth and po… Read more
lice inspector "Cardona" (James Flavin). You see, the eponymous character is not actually a person, but a foot-high jade statue worth a cool $250,000 - and it's been pinched. The policeman thinks it's a person but "Cranston" knows it's not - and that's the premiss of the hour as they both try to track it/her down whilst the body count mounts up. There's plenty of fisticuffs, trashed furniture and a few wise cracks along the way to an ending that's probably about as convoluted as they come. It's all production-line stuff this with little to remember, but I did think there was just a soupçon of charisma on display here from Barbara Read's "Margo" and the dynamic between the investigator, the inspector and is boss, the "Commissioner" (Pierre Watkin) does raise a smile now and again.