The Missing Lady

Unrated

8/17/19461h 0m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ A Mystery Thrill-Treat from the Annals of The Shadow ~

Overview:

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 (Kane Richmond) 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.

Director:

Phil Karlson

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

the shadow

Cast

Kane Richmond

~ as ~

Lamont Cranston / The Shadow

Barbara Read

~ as ~

Margo Lane

George Chandler

~ as ~

Shrevvie

James Flavin

~ as ~

Police Insp. Cardona

Pierre Watkin

~ as ~

Police Commissioner Weston

Ray Teal

~ as ~

Interrogating Detective with Black Mustache (uncredited)

Dorothea Kent

~ as ~

Jennie Delaney

Almira Sessions

~ as ~

Miss Effie

Nora Cecil

~ as ~

Miss Millie

James Cardwell

~ as ~

Terry Blake

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
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 police 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.