Broadcast November 19th 1950 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by 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: Alfred Bester
Announcer: Andre Baruch
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Jim Boles (David Fairfield and voice 2) Ian Martin (Captain Manuel Mano and Lancelot Baker) Santos Ortega (D. Pentavo and voice 1) Les Tremayne (Stuart Addison and Allegro Azul)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
David Fairfield at the Intelligence Department sends Lamont and Margot to Jacuba, an island republic in the Caribbean. A certain sovereign state is maneuvering for concessions there. The State Department wants to know why and a photo from one of Fairfield’s men shows their agent standing in the sun with what appears to be two shadows. Twice dodging the cold hand of death in the form of a bloodstained knife, Lamont and Margot evade military police in an effort to clear their names from a murder charge. When Margot is kidnapped on Roaring Mountain and set up for sacrifice at the Lake of Death, The Shadow traces the black bloodstained footprints to the altar and drums. Posing as the shadow of death itself, he orders Allegro Azul, president of the chamber of commerce, to kill Baker, the local scholar who was involved with the scheme. Back in the States, Lamont explains to Fairfield that the land is soaked with petroleum — hence the black bloodstained footprints. The second shadow in the photograph was a shadowy image cast from the sun and temporarily burned into the ground. Baker was trying to prevent outsiders from learning about the oil and Azul truly believed in the superstition. Now that the U.S. knows about the oil, the State Department can begin negotiations with Jacuba.
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