Broadcast November 4th 1951 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by Wildroot Cream-Oil Hair Tonic and Wildroot Cream 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: John Roeburt
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Joan Alexander (Laura Marlowe) Alan Hewitt (Oscar Ludwig and the voice) Santos Ortega (George Forbes and Randy West)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
A one-time giant of the theater, the celebrated Byron Marlowe mysteriously vanished from sight. Seven years later, his widow Laura files an insurance claim. Suspecting foul play when a stranger tips him off at the theater, Lamont investigates and questions the usual suspects — including Laura’s lover, the lawyer George Forbes, and Oscar Ludwig, Byron’s agent. Laura admits that Byron married her only as a mirror for his vanity. When he learned she was in love with George, there were scenes. Byron disappeared shortly after. George produces checks signed by Ludwig and claims Ludwig has a motive for covering up a murder — but Lamont knows better. Late that evening, The Shadow visits Ludwig in his bedroom with the checkbook ledger, presenting the evidence. Like a guilty conscience, having saved Ludwig from Laura’s attempt to shoot him, The Shadow encourages Ludwig to phone her and tell the truth so she can be relieved of the torture he brought upon her the past seven years out of spite — that Oscar Ludwig was the man the great actor Byron Marlowe had been impersonating all this time.
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