Broadcast October 16th 1949 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by D.L. & W. Coal Company "Blue Coal" and Grove Laboratories (Fitch Dandruff Remover Shampoo)
This is a lost episode and no recreation of it has yet been made. If you have a copy of the script please let me know.
Written by: Peter Barry
Announcer: Andre Baruch
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Elsie Thompson
Synopsis:
The hills of what is today the Dutch settlement of Neuhagen still echo the frightened whisperings of a phantom rider named Black Charrington. Annually on the night of his birth, the phantom bandit rides the hills garbed in eighteenth century guise including cloak and jack-boots, murdering people with his silver pistols. While checking out a little country house, Margot and Lamont stumble upon two murders from a weapon that fires musket balls. Vanderdamn, the local sheriff, doesn’t believe in the legend and sets out to find a young boy who is known for being unaccountable for his actions. While the sheriff and his deputies look for the boy in the hills, Lamont and Margot investigate. They discover that one of the residents was secretly working for the Pennsylvania Scientific Institute. The land is valuable enough to motivate a killer to don the guise of Black Charrington and scare people away. Margot confides in the sheriff about the chart verifying the value of the land, and the Geiger counter readings, but the sheriff realizes he has to silence Margot so the boy will take the blame for the murders. The Shadow comes to the rescue and the sheriff realizes his game is up and attempts to flee. When our heroes set out to apprehend Vanderdamn they stumble upon him dying in the woods with two wounds in his chest — made by a weapon that fires powder and ball — and the sheriff whispering, “Charrington…Charrington.”
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