Broadcast August 10th 1952 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: James Erthein
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
High up in an alpine village bordering the Iron Curtain, two foreign agents named Alganov and Barsky commit a brutal murder trying to learn the whereabouts of a timepiece that supposedly contains hidden microfilm. After stumbling upon two murders, Lamont and Margot are forced to cancel their skiing trip to investigate the circumstances of the deaths that resulted from broken necks administered by Barsky’s strong hands. After tricking the town clockmaker, Barsky takes the timepiece to his hotel room to develop the hidden microfilm. The Shadow injects a sense of fear into the enemy agent, learning that the microfilm contains a stolen formula — a perfected slave virus that makes people helpless. But the microfilm is blank, thanks to the suspicious clockmaker. The Shadow tricks Barsky into running back to his accomplice; he makes Alganov believe that he and Barsky plan to get rid of him so they can split the sale of the formula to the other side. An angry Alganov chases Barsky who makes an attempt to return to his country and falls into the hands of the approaching border guards, who have been tipped off about the enemy agents. Dying from a bullet wound from Alganov’s gun, the clockmaker reveals to The Shadow where he hid the film containing the formula so it can be delivered into safe hands.
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