The Shadow: Weird Adventures (Old Time Radio) (Classic Radio Suspense)
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570199221 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 445 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 mis. Lost Episodes Found R. G. Bright 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 act. Ash Ryan said 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
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, Flight of the Vulture 12-10-39, Ghost Town 10-06-40, The Destroyer 03-25-45, The Island of Ancient Death 03-03-46, The Valley of Living Terror 10-13-46, The Devil Takes a Wife 12-08-46, The Chill of Death 01-04-48, Death is a Colored Dream 09-26-48, The Vengeance of Angela Nolan 06-27-54. Join them on their journeys, in which you will hear four of the outstanding actors who played The Shadow: Orson Welles, Bill Johnstone, John Archer, and Bret Morrison. Lamont Cranston (a.k.a. The Shadow) and Margot Lane are intrepid world travelers, adventuring in major countries, remote islands, hidden valleys and bizarre towns. Includes Program Guide by radio historian William Nadel with photographs and background information about the series. We also pay tribute to eight actresses who braved the jungles, swamps and curses as risk-taking heroine and damsel in distress Margot Lane: Margot Stevenson, Agnes Moorehead, Marjorie Anderson, Judith Allen, Leslie Woods, Grace Matthews, Amzie Strickland, and Gertrude Warner. Featured in this collection are two newly discovered Orson Welles episodes from the series, available here for the first time