I was a very little (young) kid when we used to listen to the "The Shadow" on what I can only recall as a very large radio that even got short-wave from Russia and Australia. Check out the poster for the upcoming movie "Here's Flash Casey" in the background....another great little movie. Thanks for the memories.
My dad introduced be to the Shadow radio show, reruns of which aired back in the sixties on KMOX radio in St. Louis. I just remember that, at some point, the voice actor would mysteriously say in a deep voice, "The Shadow knows".
The old black and white detective movies are the most entertaining then any move today. The actors are so funny and the story lines give you some idea about the time they're set in. Thank you for downloading them for ALL US to watch!!! I really like the 20's 30's and 40's detective moves. Thanks
yeah the Great Depression and World War One made them tough...and they didn't have to worry about the nuclear bomb or bioweapons. Men were men (or not) and women were women (or not).
Wonderfully entertaining. Good story, snappy script, fast paced. I haven't come across Rod La Rocque (his real name!) before but on the evidence of this he was an excellent actor and very personable. Recommended film.
Years back I listened to a radio DJ named Danny Styles who would play 78 records from the thirties and forties, assisted by his friend Rod LaRocque. He'd end the program by saying, "Hold the door, Rod. These 78's are excruciatingly heavy."
Cows don't wear watches, they use their tails as sun-dials & are therefore impervious to the horrors of daylight saving... That's why they don't fade over summer!
They had less to work with as far as backing music & special effects & as a result, the story & dialogue had to carry the whole movie. Something I doubt anyone in Hollywood could pull off these days...
I thought she was harmless and silly. We have too many bland girl characters that have sandpaper personalities. It helps Cranston is annoyed with her, so we aren't.
"Oh never mind those things. I don't go in for flashy jewelry." Just the kind of movie I love- lots of witty banter and one liners throughout! Excellent!
Hollywood has forgotten how to make these kind of movies. There's a lot less financial risk if these things flop. All you need is a good script, attractive, good actors and a professional production team.
I love these movies! Remember hearing ‘old-time’ radio broadcasts of The Shadow; loved the intro: ‘What Evil lurks in the Hearts of Men?!!.. ….Only The Shadow knows!!!’ 😂😂😄😉 I feel that These Actors really nailed their Roles. Great-Stuff!!
Great film, though it has almost nothing to do with the radio show. Whoever wrote the script merely took the character names (with certain changes...Miss Lane is Margo on the radio) and the "Crime does not pay" slogan. The radio shows always had a much darker feel to them. Missing too from this film is the Shadow's trademark ability to cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him...although, this portrayal of him is certainly more believable!
This is a remarkably funny script and acted with humorous aplomb in a good natured interaction between the Shadow and his boss and the police with light-hearted laughs from the Shadow's Shadow and the taxi driver saving the day more than once. I look forward to seeing some more Shadow movies.
You are right. This is a delight. This is when films either quite witty or were filled double entendres. And the final scene where Phoebe is given the microphone and chokes up is a riot. One listening at the other end might almost think she was experiencing an orgasm :))
@@acehandler1530 My children are boomers, not me. I'm a fossil. As for you, you sound as though you should be----or have been----the Grand Marshal at a Pride Parade somewhere.
@@leelarson107 Yeah, but, what are you really trying to say? Lol - yeah, I've had gay friends, free love in the 60's for true...but I never went through that love tunnel just to be clear.
Really loved this movie. B/W movies are really grreat. I really like The Shadow stories. I'm looking for more Shadow stories that made feature film status or novels or books. I have the 239 radio shows. The Shadow is such an underated hero.
One of the suggestions RUclips has so thoughtfully provided is a movie made in 1995 called "The Shadow" starring somebody called Alec Baldwin (apparently, he was on The Simpsons or something) which is available to rent or buy. Tough choice - Should I spend my hard earned cash on a movie made at least 35 years after Hollywood's golden years or continue to watch the best movies they ever made for free...?
A smart thriller that holds its head up above its station. What it lacks in big-name stars it makes up for in snappy satiric dialog, never-a-dull-moment convoluted mystery, & memorable, believable characters. Skillfully directed by Charles Lomont who had a long distinguished career of over 200 films at various studios, including the big ones.
As if it wasn't already bad enough that the Shadow was *barely* in the first movie, in the one, he's downgraded to a flippin' *RADIO HANDLE* with the only visual of him being a tiny little drawing in the newspaper.
Better than the films now. When I get asked, did you see Titanic? I tell them, I seen the original and when you've seen one boat sink, you've seen them all. Not many original thoughts in their heads.
Rod was successful in the silent era and became more of a staunch supporting player throughout the thirties.In the forties he became a real estate businessman and radio producer.He married film star Vilma Banky in 1927 and died in 1969.
I wear an Indiana Jones type of hat all seasons. For that matter, I'd like to see GOOD TASTE come back into fashion. Most people today dress like bums.
I like this show. It is just a shame that the only person of colour in the movie is told to act the subservient fool for comic effect and racial stereotype of that error.
This is a good old film. I'm surprised that Rod La Rocque and company could have as much fun with the script as they obviously did. As for Lamont Cranston--I guess the story begins before he discovered the secret of how to cloud men's minds. And Phoebe Lane must be Margo's sister. Perhaps Lamont jumped into the sack with both of them--in which case he was my kind of reprobate.
The shadow began as a mysterious voice introducing radio mysteries. The voice was so popular that its creator was asked to turn it into a character in his own right. This character became a popular pulp novel crimefighter and a somewhat different radio character (mostly so that listeners could tell the voices apart). So he really was a mystery announcer before he discovered his powers.
@@susanfaulkner2304you are obviously a wicked minded person descended from the ice box of Europe. You're an idiot if you don't think that you people have built up immense negative karma. Thanks for reminding me to avoid you people, despite how you pretend to be reasonable. You are not.
... and NOW, Kids, be SURE to come back to this theatre next Saturday morning to another episode crime-busting adventure of ... THE SHADOW!! Thanks, P.F., for posting what I missed.
Phoebe! What? Little Phoebe! (Who the deuce may she be?) Gilbert and Sullivan, "The Yeomen of the Guard". Ever since I first heard that terrible rhyme I have loved that name.
This was actually quite good, well-plotted with great dialogue. Rod La Rocque is wonderful. However, his character doesn't have much in common with The Shadow from the pulps, who was a mysterious crimefighter in a hat and cloak with the power to cloud men's minds, effectively becoming invisible. I can only conclude that this was an unrelated script that was produced as a Shadow movie to get fans of that character go to see it. A rather shoddy trick, but something Hollywood does all the time (several of the recent Hellraiser movies also began life as unrelated scripts that elements from the Hellraiser franchise were then awkwardly shoehorned into).
The only remote reference to The Shadow , the mysterious crime fighter, was a photograph of The Shadow in Cranston's office. Disappointing letdown to me.😒
Why should fellow countrymen talk to each other in English? That makes no sense at all. Even The Shadow in his role should not have spoken English. You can't overlook such a logical error.
Yep, that's James C. Morton, who among his many films pops up regularly in Hal Roach comedies and Three Stooges shorts. He would work with-or-without toupee, often losing it for comic effect!
I was a very little (young) kid when we used to listen to the "The Shadow" on what I can only recall as a very large radio that even got short-wave from Russia and Australia. Check out the poster for the upcoming movie "Here's Flash Casey" in the background....another great little movie. Thanks for the memories.
I saw that all 259? episodes of the Shadow radio show are available on Google.
That should keep you busy for a few months.
Wow, that's amazing. 😊
My dad introduced be to the Shadow radio show, reruns of which aired back in the sixties on KMOX radio in St. Louis. I just remember that, at some point, the voice actor would mysteriously say in a deep voice, "The Shadow knows".
Totally different shadow..but I know that radio broadcast well... it's on RUclips and I listen to it all the time
I’m 83 now going on 84 I listened to the shadow every Sunday at 5pm on our big Philco radio.
The old black and white detective movies are the most entertaining then any move today. The actors are so funny and the story lines give you some idea about the time they're set in. Thank you for downloading them for ALL US to watch!!! I really like the 20's 30's and 40's detective moves. Thanks
It's so hard for me to watch slapstick. But I love old movies.
yeah the Great Depression and World War One made them tough...and they didn't have to worry about the nuclear bomb or bioweapons. Men were men (or not) and women were women (or not).
R H all is us is rite second dat emotion
Same, can’t get enough of them.
I agree!
Those classics from 30s and 40s never disappoint you. Thanks for sharing.
30:10 All the accents. What amazing acting! really enjoyed :-)
Wonderfully entertaining. Good story, snappy script, fast paced. I haven't come across Rod La Rocque (his real name!) before but on the evidence of this he was an excellent actor and very personable. Recommended film.
Years back I listened to a radio DJ named Danny Styles who would play 78 records from the thirties and forties, assisted by his friend Rod LaRocque. He'd end the program by saying, "Hold the door, Rod. These 78's are excruciatingly heavy."
They had daylight saving in 1939?! You mean to tell me we have been torturing cows for THAT long?
😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 LOL!!!
Cows don't wear watches, they use their tails as sun-dials & are therefore impervious to the horrors of daylight saving... That's why they don't fade over summer!
Farmers don't adjust the milking intervals....
for obvious reasons.
How could you not love this? A fun movie!
Well written excellent quality B&W!
Thank you for sharing!
I thought the same! Just fun from start to finish.
The view of that huge skyscraper in the opening scene is the very same one used toward the beginning of 'The 9th Guest' in 1934.
I've found movies from the 30s and 40s to be more entertaining than even the 50s.
I feel the same hundred of times
Charles Mitchell q
same with german films
They had less to work with as far as backing music & special effects & as a result, the story & dialogue had to carry the whole movie.
Something I doubt anyone in Hollywood could pull off these days...
I urge you to see a doctor right away
The Shadow as a radio announcer? You find some true gems. Why I subscribed. Thanks.
Gotta love "Moe", the cabbie.
Beautifully clean B/W film, no noise or blurry lines. Enjoyable to watch. Thanks, Pizza.
Yes, and not an ad in sight anywhere. Truly sublime. 😃
Some classic Noir-style moments, in 1938. So much movie 'history' is a bunch of assumptions. Noir supposedly didn't start till the post war period.
It's too bad the Miss Lane character was written as such a brainless clown--- this is a good story and watchable film other than her.
I thought she was harmless and silly. We have too many bland girl characters that have sandpaper personalities. It helps Cranston is annoyed with her, so we aren't.
this movie was great I love watching all these old B&W, I love watching you movies you upload. Thank you again!!!
ALWAYS LOVED THE SHADOW ON THE RADIO, TOO
"Oh never mind those things. I don't go in for flashy jewelry." Just the kind of movie I love- lots of witty banter and one liners throughout! Excellent!
Everyone loves bling
@@lisashapiro4714 That could be arranged.
Hollywood has forgotten how to make these kind of movies.
There's a lot less financial risk if these things flop.
All you need is a good script, attractive, good actors and a professional production team.
I love these movies!
Remember hearing ‘old-time’ radio broadcasts of The Shadow; loved the intro:
‘What Evil lurks in the Hearts of Men?!!..
….Only The Shadow knows!!!’
😂😂😄😉
I feel that These Actors really nailed their Roles.
Great-Stuff!!
Great movie and wonderful actors!!
"I wish I could forget you." I love these movies. Thank you.
Great film, though it has almost nothing to do with the radio show. Whoever wrote the script merely took the character names (with certain changes...Miss Lane is Margo on the radio) and the "Crime does not pay" slogan. The radio shows always had a much darker feel to them. Missing too from this film is the Shadow's trademark ability to cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him...although, this portrayal of him is certainly more believable!
Cloud mind ?? Wonder if that is what is happening to me I’m scheduled for cataract surgery and feeling scared
Right. This was fun, but it didn't quite have the Orson Welles touch.
@@nildacrespo1683
A few drops and you’ll be fine
81 years ago....Thomas L. Jackson, as the Commissioner, was terrific in LITTLE CAESAR (1931.)
He seemed to be everywhere in those days,a welcome presence in so many films.
@@keithharvey7230 Loved him. Like true life.
Witty and humorous crime solving a la "Thin Man". Good flick.
This is a remarkably funny script and acted with humorous aplomb in a good natured interaction between the Shadow and his boss and the police with light-hearted laughs from the Shadow's Shadow and the taxi driver saving the day more than once. I look forward to seeing some more Shadow movies.
You are right. This is a delight. This is when films either quite witty or were filled double entendres. And the final scene where Phoebe is given the microphone and chokes up is
a riot. One listening at the other end might almost think she was experiencing an orgasm :))
@@axelsohn1454 She just had a little microscope anxiety😉
"Will you get her out of my hair and put her back on the Household page where she belongs!" Lol - good old nepotism 😱 Great flick thanks PF 🙏
No, no, you little politically-correct snowflake, not 'nepotism'..............you mean 'sexism/racism', don't you?
@@leelarson107 Okay, Boomer!
Most people would have applauded the fact that even 80 years ago, women were making solid headway into male-dominated professions...
@@acehandler1530 My children are boomers, not me. I'm a fossil. As for you, you sound as though you should be----or have been----the Grand Marshal at a Pride Parade somewhere.
@@leelarson107 Yeah, but, what are you really trying to say? Lol - yeah, I've had gay friends, free love in the 60's for true...but I never went through that love tunnel just to be clear.
Hi there I'm 66 and I love all these shows 👆
80 years old and still delightfully enjoyable. A real pleasue to watch.
81 and enjoyed your finding yourself delightfully enjoyable. Know u meant the movie. Lol
Absolutely lovely, and with a zing.
A good old black and white film 🎥 . On a very low budget, plus the cast are very good. A lady of 50 .
Thank you PizzaFlix for another great movie ! You always present the best !!
I love those old movies. Thanks, PizzaFlix!
Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX
I can imagine Brian Aherne as the lead.
Enjoy these old B/W movies thanks
Loved this.
Thank you for sharing it.
God bless
_Anyone dumb enough to fall for that one's got it comin'._
Really loved this movie. B/W movies are really grreat. I really like The Shadow stories. I'm looking for more Shadow stories that made feature film status or novels or books. I have the 239 radio shows. The Shadow is such an underated hero.
B/W film, cinematography, can be so stunning. Much more dramatic than colour!
Bear in mind that B&W is still lacking in part of the whole. The real world is in Technicolor.
Love the black and white movies. Before my time, l fully enjoy them.
One of the suggestions RUclips has so thoughtfully provided is a movie made in 1995 called "The Shadow" starring somebody called Alec Baldwin (apparently, he was on The Simpsons or something) which is available to rent or buy.
Tough choice - Should I spend my hard earned cash on a movie made at least 35 years after Hollywood's golden years or continue to watch the best movies they ever made for free...?
A smart thriller that holds its head up above its station. What it lacks in big-name stars it makes up for in snappy satiric dialog, never-a-dull-moment convoluted mystery, & memorable, believable characters.
Skillfully directed by Charles Lomont who had a long distinguished career of over 200 films at various studios, including the big ones.
As if it wasn't already bad enough that the Shadow was *barely* in the first movie, in the one, he's downgraded to a flippin' *RADIO HANDLE* with the only visual of him being a tiny little drawing in the newspaper.
Better than the films now. When I get asked, did you see Titanic? I tell them, I seen the original and when you've seen one boat sink, you've seen them all. Not many original thoughts in their heads.
I can imagine Brian Aherne as the lead.
cute movie for a 1939 Matinee. At times, Astrid Allwyn sounded like Myrna Loy if you just listened.
Astrid's daughter and grand-daughter became beautiful....and somewhat more "top-heavy than Astrid
Rod La Roque. Now that's one heckuva' stage name.
Strangely, it was his real name: Roderick Ross Laroque
Rod was successful in the silent era and became more of a staunch supporting player throughout the thirties.In the forties he became a real estate businessman and radio producer.He married film star Vilma Banky in 1927 and died in 1969.
I’m so glad that they put out so many great detective movies. I love these
He has the voice of John Wayne doesn't he ? Or rather John Wayne got his voice. Great movie.
A great movie !
great movie. thank you.
nice Bruand poster in the office at 6' passim
Sure would like to see the wearing of the trilby hat come back into every day fashion.
Alas, those hats~ and all that went with 'em are gone forever. However, I wear a brown fedora in winter and a Panama in summer...
I wear an Indiana Jones type of hat all seasons. For that matter, I'd like to see GOOD TASTE come back into fashion. Most people today dress like bums.
THE Shadow rides again. 🤗 Sweet 👏🏾🎥🎬🙋🏽
PF, you did it again, GREAT MOVIE !
I like this show. It is just a shame that the only person of colour in the movie is told to act the subservient fool for comic effect and racial stereotype of that error.
These are great it's like watching the Marx Brothers,going to work had to get in the way. have to finish it later
Note to self.
Path to fortune and power = be ruthless
@25:16 Miss Lane: "You dumbass, why don't you look where you're going?!"
Or was it, 'dumb ox?'
PizzaFlix thanks for this fun movie that was only an hour long. I RoccoMend it.
She’s back 🍕
The problem is ..... I'm not allowed to eat pizza anymore!!!
@@lindarocco9974 say it ain’t so Rocco 🥲
The two stars work so well together.
Great Interpretation and fine acting. " the shadow does not know" Lol.
"I'd have been the shadow of your shadow if I thought it might have kept me by your side."
If you go away...
C E. Super sweet though it may keep you one step behind depending on th direction of incoming lite
Another good whodunit. Thank you!
entertaining but had almost nothing to do with the shadow.. Just the names are used.
I really like these old
This is a good old film. I'm surprised that Rod La Rocque and company could have as much fun with the script as they obviously did. As for Lamont Cranston--I guess the story begins before he discovered the secret of how to cloud men's minds. And Phoebe Lane must be Margo's sister. Perhaps Lamont jumped into the sack with both of them--in which case he was my kind of reprobate.
The shadow began as a mysterious voice introducing radio mysteries. The voice was so popular that its creator was asked to turn it into a character in his own right. This character became a popular pulp novel crimefighter and a somewhat different radio character (mostly so that listeners could tell the voices apart). So he really was a mystery announcer before he discovered his powers.
this Rod guy was a real swashbuckler
Entertaining and funny.
THE SHADOW
Thanks for the comic relief
I need that‼️
These are fun flicks. As Shadow films, they have too little Shadow and they're mostly a classic detective movie.
The Shadow using social media circa 1939...
Thanks very entertaining, my parents showed me these movies.
Good movie but, I just hate how Hollywood shows black men, it's still sickens me.
Not a one person twisted their arms to act in these movies back then. If it's degrading, don't do it.
@@susanfaulkner2304you are obviously a wicked minded person descended from the ice box of Europe. You're an idiot if you don't think that you people have built up immense negative karma. Thanks for reminding me to avoid you people, despite how you pretend to be reasonable. You are not.
... and NOW, Kids, be SURE to come back to this theatre next Saturday morning to another episode crime-busting adventure of ... THE SHADOW!!
Thanks, P.F., for posting what I missed.
Silence is never "golden" and there is so much thing as an " Honest John."
Phoebe! What? Little Phoebe! (Who the deuce may she be?)
Gilbert and Sullivan, "The Yeomen of the Guard". Ever since I first heard that terrible rhyme I have loved that name.
"Scram Sister!
This was actually quite good, well-plotted with great dialogue. Rod La Rocque is wonderful. However, his character doesn't have much in common with The Shadow from the pulps, who was a mysterious crimefighter in a hat and cloak with the power to cloud men's minds, effectively becoming invisible. I can only conclude that this was an unrelated script that was produced as a Shadow movie to get fans of that character go to see it. A rather shoddy trick, but something Hollywood does all the time (several of the recent Hellraiser movies also began life as unrelated scripts that elements from the Hellraiser franchise were then awkwardly shoehorned into).
Did you notice there's a picture of the pulp shadow on the wall in his office. Perhaps it's there to imply that he is the 'real life' Shadow.
Great movie.I remember as a kid listening to the Shadow& the line Ranger on the radio.👍
This was GREAT tsmfp!!(thanxsomucforpostn)....☺☺
By the late 1930s important roles for women were few. Astrid Allwyn is virtually the only woman with lines in the whole film 🎞.
Young Lady, you are IMPOSSIBLE .
Not if the right man comes along
All the Shadow movies are great.
I like this movie already.
The only remote reference to The Shadow , the mysterious crime fighter, was a photograph of The Shadow in Cranston's office. Disappointing letdown to me.😒
I tried this before...it made me dizzy!....Oh, so that's what caused it!
Excellent☺
Not even remotely close to Walter E. Gibson's original character...mildly entertaining at best.
Why should fellow countrymen talk to each other in English? That makes no sense at all. Even The Shadow in his role should not have spoken English. You can't overlook such a logical error.
Fun movie. Thanx for sharing
I liked it.
The English language was understood. Nomatter, no inference of dialect, or language
Thanks 😊
The Shadow KNOWS
Good movie, but it was Lamont Cranston and not really "The Shadow" Thanks anyway.
The title tune is very interesting. Expected the usual canned crap but this one surprised me. Very clever stuff.
At 3min., does this guy look like Peter Boyle?
Yep, that's James C. Morton, who among his many films pops up regularly in Hal Roach comedies and Three Stooges shorts. He would work with-or-without toupee, often losing it for comic effect!
Why aren't you showing all of the rest of the comments?
Luv 1939 movies the cars acting the best ever
Phoebe Lane is such a goofball. Annoying but charming.
Thanks! Love the old character actors
Thank you PizzaFlix for another great movie ! You always present the best !!
A real nice movie.