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MPAA Rating: PG-13 Movie Release: 1994 DVD Release: 11/19/1997 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 48 mins Studio: Universal Studios Members Wishing: 6 Genres: Action, Fantasy, Superhero Film, Fantasy Adventure See Also: The Shadow [DTS]

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

Alec Baldwin - Lamont Cranston/The Shadow
John Lone - Shiwan Khan
Penelope Ann Miller - Margo Lane
Peter Boyle - Moe Shrevnitz
Ian McKellen - Dr. Reinhardt Lane

Russell Mulcahy's adaptation of the classic radio drama The Shadow comes to DVD with this release. The essentially barebones disc features a 1.33:1 transfer that does not preserve the film's original apsect ratio but has been formatted to fit standard television screens. Along with Dolby Digital soundtracks in English and French, the DVD also features Spanish subtitles. Two years following this release, the studio put out a revised edition that replaced the foreign language tracks and subtitles with an optional English DTS soundtrack. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide