MOVIE:
Fantasy Super-Hero film, USA 1994(a.k.a. Shadow und der Fluch des Khan)Directed
by Russell MulcahyProduced by Willi Baer, Martin Bregman & Michael Scott Bregman
Music by Jerry Goldsmith, Sinoa Loren (Song "Some Kind of Mystery") & Jim Steinman
(Theme Song "Original Sin")Starring Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller,
Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen & Tim Curry
COMIC CHARACTER:
The Shadow is a fictional character created by Walter B. Gibson in 1931 in a
semimonthly series of pulp magazines. The first story was titled "The Living Shadow".
The character is one of the most famous of the pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s
made most famous through a popular radio series in which The Shadow was originally
played by Orson Welles. The Shadow has also been featured in comic books, comic strips,
television, and at least seven motion pictures. Still, The Shadow is most highly
regarded for its radio years, in which pulp crime fiction received perhaps its most
compelling broadcast interpretation.Even after decades, the unmistakable introduction
from The Shadow, intoned by announcer Frank Readick, has earned a place in the American
idiom: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!"
