Kane Richmond stars as Lamont Cranston in the first entry in a short Monogram series about the Shadow, with Barbara Read co-starring as Margo Lane (here explicitly Cranston’s fiancée,). A moderately interesting situation — jewels smuggled inside a casket and fatal falls — is squandered by weak writing. Fans of magazine and radio show alike will probably dislike the film, which makes the Shadow little more than a masked amateur sleuth and puts far too much emphasis on comedy. Tom Dugan grates as Cranston’s servant/sidekick, Shrevvie, and Joseph Crehan portrays an ineffective Inspector Cardona. Still, the picture is rather more entertaining than Rod La Rocque’s excruciating 1930’s Shadow films for Grand National.

Not recommended.