Broadcast August 17th 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: Jerry McGill
Announcer: Sandy Becker
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
Lamont and Margot are invited to a weekend party at the estate of Leo and Diana Tyler—by Margot’s old friend, Diana’s secretary/companion, Ann Webster. Diana fears her life is in danger ever since she was brutally attacked and handicapped by a pet lion cub. Sensing hate stalking through the house, Lamont investigates the poisoning of their Great Dane and questions Leo’s obsession for the grown lion that now occupies the secure cage in the backyard. When Joe Morgan, an ex-con who was hired as the Tyler chauffeur, is shot by a high-powered rifle and it is made clear that both Leo and Diana are lying and covering up too many cross-currents of hate and greed, The Shadow takes a hand in the murderous game. While Margot sets out by car to fetch the police because the telephone lines are cut, The Shadow discovers Morgan was blackmailing the Tylers. When Leo intends to release the lion so his wife and the invisible avenger will face their doom, The Shadow knocks him unconscious. Diana reveals her true motive — jealousy. She falsely suspected her husband was having an affair with Ann Webster. Diana attempts to set the wild beast loose but, before she can do so, confesses to shooting the blackmailer with a rifle and then suffers a heart attack.
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