Broadcast April 8th 1951 on Mutual at 5:00 p.m. EST sponsored by the U.S. Army & the U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service
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: Edward J. Adamson
Announcer: Carl Caruso
Cast: Bret Morrison (Lamont Cranston/The Shadow) Gertrude Warner (Margot Lane) Ralph Bell (Owen Whitney and Lennie Burke) Francis De Sales (Mr. Harris and Ed Lorado) Santos Ortega (Kenneth Palmer) Robert Sloane (Vic Dayton)
Music: Charles Paul
Synopsis:
In an effort to rid the city of Glendale of a gang of hoodlums and murderers known as The Terror Squad, Lamont takes over the editorial job of the late Owen Whitney, one of the gang’s victims. The city is held in the grip of political corruption and people who campaign for honest politicians are murdered. Ed Lorado, a friend and undercover man of Whitney’s, gives Lamont and Margot the names of goons Vic and Lennie, who do most of threatening, and becomes their victim when their latest scheme fails. Lamont prints an editorial claiming Lorado, who now lies wounded in a hospital, his face wrapped in bandages, will speak to the State Attorney’s Office. Out of desperation, Lennie and Vic pick him up at the hospital, unaware they have really taken Lamont, in disguise under similar bandages. When Kenneth Palmer, the editor-in-chief of the local paper appears to personally oversee the liquidation, Lamont becomes The Shadow in order to help the State Police, surround the shack and apprehend the man in charge of The Terror Squad. Believing it is a trick. Palmer attempts to escape, only to die from a State Police machine gun burst.
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