The Shadow: Weird Adventures (Old Time Radio) (Classic Radio Suspense)
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570199221 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 201 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Their perilous ports of call included places like Devil's Island and The Valley of Living Terror. The Shadow) and Margot Lane are intrepid world travelers, adventuring in major countries, remote islands, hidden valleys and bizarre towns. EPISODES INCLUDE: White God 05-01-38, Aboard the Steamship 05-08-38, Message From The Hills 05-22-38, The Reincarnation of Michael 07-17-38, Professor X 09-18-38, Island of the Devil 01-08-39, Valley of the Living Dead 01-22-39, Hypnotic Death 02-12-39, Conversation with Death 09-17-39, Fligh
M. G Watson said Not weird, just wonderful. I love just about anything from the Golden Age of Radio, but if I had to choose a single show to remain in existence after all the others had turned to dust and been forgotten, it would be THE SHADOW. This program, which combined genres as disparate as mystery/detective, noir, horror, espionage, and science fiction, was and remains a joy to listen to. The story of The Shadow was simply this: as a young man, Lamont Cranston traveled the world studying the occult. While in India, he learned the secret of telekentic hypnosis, which allowed him to cast a hypnotic mist over other people's minds, rendering him invisible. R. G. Bright said Lost Episodes Found. In the episode "Conversation With Death," a doctor's act of vengeance using a new formula designed to put his victims into a cataleptic state, comes back to haunt him in the guide of The Shadow, of course. "Conversation With Death" was never broadcast during the Blue Coal sponsorship. Agnes Moorehead made her final appearance as Margot Lane in this episode. It has been in circulation for years but has been a difficult find. Also a pleasure is "Flight of the Vulture." Not a great episode, but Radio Spirits once sold this in an edited form. Supposedly the black actor's scenes had been censored. The episode is now wh. A decent collection containing one rather unusual episode This collection contains one of the more interesting, intellectual episodes of The Shadow, "Valley of the Living Dead", which is a thinly veiled criticism of the New Deal about a valley where people are paid not to work. What makes it especially interesting is that it stresses that it's a moral point, not merely a political one, by making the valley privately run. Of course, there is the usual conservative nonsense about freedom being a gift from god, and some weird stuff about how the man in charge is somehow selfish for "helping" othersthere is some indication that his motive is to make them dependent and thus g