The Missing Lady

"A Mystery Thrill-Treat from the Annals of The Shadow"

1946 1h 0m EN

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4.8

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★4.8TMDB · 12

Science FictionCrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

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While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.

“A Mystery Thrill-Treat from the Annals of The Shadow”

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Cast

Kane Richmond
Lamont Cranston / The Shadow
Barbara Read
Margo Lane
George Chandler
Shrevvie
James Flavin
Police Insp. Cardona
Pierre Watkin
Police Commissioner Weston
Dorothea Kent
Jennie Delaney
Almira Sessions
Miss Effie
Nora Cecil
Miss Millie

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Phil Karlson
Writers: George Callahan
Languages: English

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RUNTIME

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Tight 60-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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80 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Shadow Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Phil Karlson, shot by William A. Sickner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Ace Herman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Kane Richmond and Barbara Read and George Chandler carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "A Mystery Thrill-Treat from the Annals of The Shadow".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Phil Karlson directs. William A. Sickner behind the camera. Ace Herman cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 60-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
280 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Part of the "The Shadow Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Phil Karlson, shot by William A. Sickner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Editor Ace Herman shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Kane Richmond and Barbara Read and George Chandler carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "A Mystery Thrill-Treat from the Annals of The Shadow".
9IMDB entry: tt0038743 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Only 12 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: William A. Sickner
Editing: Ace Herman
Runtime: 60 min · 1h 0m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: The Missing Lady (1946)

Part of

The Shadow Collection

The Shadow is a super hero. Who like many super heroes fights crime in New York City. Behind the mask of The Shadow is a young wealthy man known as Lamont Cranston, also known as Kent Allard.

Also by

Phil Karlson

Community reviews

What people are saying

CinemaSerf2024-12-10
★ 6/10
So Kane Richmond takes top billing as the "Shadow/Cranston" but it's really "Miss Effie" (Almira Sessions) and "Miss Millie" (Nora Cecil) who steal the scenes as the busy-body lift operators who shimmy around in perfectly symmetrical attire running one of those counter-weight elevators that has a mind of it's own as they entrap their "passengers" whilst they accrue all the gossip. The rest of the plot is all centred on rather a silly misunderstanding between our sleuth and police inspector "Cardona" (James Flavin). You see, the eponymous character is not actually a person, but a foot-high jade statue worth a cool $250,000 - and it's been pinched. The policeman thinks it's a person but "Cranston" knows it's not - and that's the premiss of the hour as they both try to track it/her down whilst the body count mounts up. There's plenty of fisticuffs, trashed furniture and a few wise cracks along the way to an ending that's probably about as convoluted as they come. It's all production-line stuff this with little to remember, but I did think there was just a soupçon of charisma on display here from Barbara Read's "Margo" and the dynamic between the investigator, the inspector and is boss, the "Commissioner" (Pierre Watkin) does raise a smile now and again.