Broadcast December 11th 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: Frank Kane
Announcer: Andre Baruch
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Elsie Thompson
Synopsis:
While Commissioner Weston is looking at an insurance racket from an insurance investigator’s angle, Lamont decides to slip out the back door. People who supposedly die in train wrecks, fires, drowning and accidents actually disappear — by hiding out or leaving the country. Relatives or friends collect the insurance money on the basis of the substitute body. Rackets Rafferty and his partners in crime, Spiv and Dum Dum, spend their evenings robbing freshly dug graves for bodies that can be mistaken for the recently deceased at the scene of an accident. Dum Dum, too stupid and scared for the racket, is shot by Rafferty and buried alive in a freshly robbed grave. In a basement hideout, Lamont meets Dum Dum, alive and well, and reveals the solution to the mystery. Dum Dum was an ex-carnival performer who worked a Houdini-type act in a sideshow — including impossible escapes and buried-alive stunts. Working with Rafferty’s wife, Dum Dum was able to murder Spiv to exact revenge, intending to frame Rafferty for the crimes. Following a tip from Lamont, Weston shoots and wounds Dum Dum.
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