International Crime (1938) THE SHADOW 

I saw that all 259? episodes of the Shadow radio show are available on Google. That should keep you busy for a few months.

Wow, that's amazing. 😊

My dad introduced be to the Shadow radio show, reruns of which aired back in the sixties on KMOX radio in St. Louis. I just remember that, at some point, the voice actor would mysteriously say in a deep voice, "The Shadow knows".

Totally different shadow..but I know that radio broadcast well... it's on RU-vid and I listen to it all the time

I’m 83 now going on 84 I listened to the shadow every Sunday at 5pm on our big Philco radio.

It's so hard for me to watch slapstick. But I love old movies.

yeah the Great Depression and World War One made them tough...and they didn't have to worry about the nuclear bomb or bioweapons. Men were men (or not) and women were women (or not).

R H all is us is rite second dat emotion

Same, can’t get enough of them.

I agree!

Years back I listened to a radio DJ named Danny Styles who would play 78 records from the thirties and forties, assisted by his friend Rod LaRocque. He'd end the program by saying, "Hold the door, Rod. These 78's are excruciatingly heavy."

😆 🤣 😂 😆 🤣 LOL!!!

Cows don't wear watches, they use their tails as sun-dials & are therefore impervious to the horrors of daylight saving... That's why they don't fade over summer!

Farmers don't adjust the milking intervals.... for obvious reasons.

I thought the same! Just fun from start to finish.

I feel the same hundred of times

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same with german films

They had less to work with as far as backing music & special effects & as a result, the story & dialogue had to carry the whole movie. Something I doubt anyone in Hollywood could pull off these days...

I urge you to see a doctor right away

Yes, and not an ad in sight anywhere. Truly sublime. 😃

Some classic Noir-style moments, in 1938. So much movie 'history' is a bunch of assumptions. Noir supposedly didn't start till the post war period.

I thought she was harmless and silly. We have too many bland girl characters that have sandpaper personalities. It helps Cranston is annoyed with her, so we aren't.

Everyone loves bling

@@lisashapiro4714 That could be arranged.

Hollywood has forgotten how to make these kind of movies. There's a lot less financial risk if these things flop. All you need is a good script, attractive, good actors and a professional production team.

You are right. This is a delight. This is when films either quite witty or were filled double entendres. And the final scene where Phoebe is given the microphone and chokes up is a riot. One listening at the other end might almost think she was experiencing an orgasm :))

@@axelsohn1454 She just had a little microscope anxiety😉

Cloud mind ?? Wonder if that is what is happening to me I’m scheduled for cataract surgery and feeling scared

Right. This was fun, but it didn't quite have the Orson Welles touch.

@@nildacrespo1683 A few drops and you’ll be fine

He seemed to be everywhere in those days,a welcome presence in so many films.

@@keithharvey7230 Loved him. Like true life.

No, no, you little politically-correct snowflake, not 'nepotism'..............you mean 'sexism/racism', don't you?

@@leelarson107 Okay, Boomer!

Most people would have applauded the fact that even 80 years ago, women were making solid headway into male-dominated professions...

@@acehandler1530 My children are boomers, not me. I'm a fossil. As for you, you sound as though you should be----or have been----the Grand Marshal at a Pride Parade somewhere.

@@leelarson107 Yeah, but, what are you really trying to say? Lol - yeah, I've had gay friends, free love in the 60's for true...but I never went through that love tunnel just to be clear.

81 and enjoyed your finding yourself delightfully enjoyable. Know u meant the movie. Lol

Thanks for watching PizzaFLIX

Bear in mind that B&W is still lacking in part of the whole. The real world is in Technicolor.

Strangely, it was his real name: Roderick Ross Laroque

Rod was successful in the silent era and became more of a staunch supporting player throughout the thirties.In the forties he became a real estate businessman and radio producer.He married film star Vilma Banky in 1927 and died in 1969.

Astrid's daughter and grand-daughter became beautiful....and somewhat more "top-heavy than Astrid

Alas, those hats~ and all that went with 'em are gone forever. However, I wear a brown fedora in winter and a Panama in summer...

I wear an Indiana Jones type of hat all seasons. For that matter, I'd like to see GOOD TASTE come back into fashion. Most people today dress like bums.

The shadow began as a mysterious voice introducing radio mysteries. The voice was so popular that its creator was asked to turn it into a character in his own right. This character became a popular pulp novel crimefighter and a somewhat different radio character (mostly so that listeners could tell the voices apart). So he really was a mystery announcer before he discovered his powers.

If you go away...

C E. Super sweet though it may keep you one step behind depending on th direction of incoming lite

She’s back 🍕

The problem is ..... I'm not allowed to eat pizza anymore!!!

@@lindarocco9974 say it ain’t so Rocco 🥲

Or was it, 'dumb ox?'

Did you notice there's a picture of the pulp shadow on the wall in his office. Perhaps it's there to imply that he is the 'real life' Shadow.

Not a one person twisted their arms to act in these movies back then. If it's degrading, don't do it.

​@@susanfaulkner2304you are obviously a wicked minded person descended from the ice box of Europe. You're an idiot if you don't think that you people have built up immense negative karma. Thanks for reminding me to avoid you people, despite how you pretend to be reasonable. You are not.

Young Lady, you are IMPOSSIBLE . Not if the right man comes along

Carolle Enkelmann.....I was born in 1952 and when I was a kid I was a big comic book reader, especially Superman and Batman. Then I would get up on Saturday morning early and watch Superman on t.v. with George Reeves. Yea, Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen were great in the series. But in the comic books, wasn't there something about Superman and the double 'L' names of the women that he had to deal with? There was of course Lois Lane of the Daily Planet, but there was also Lois's rival, Lana Lane, and my old memory of the comics wants to remember something else about the double 'L' thing...?? I know that I became a good reader and a good speller as a kid and I would like to attribute a lot of that to reading a lot of comic books. Today's kids hardly read at all, much less comic books. And besides, today's comics have gotten really weird and twisted and nothing like the simple good guys versus bad guys and simple fun escapism of my generation of comic book readers.

Yep, that's James C. Morton, who among his many films pops up regularly in Hal Roach comedies and Three Stooges shorts. He would work with-or-without toupee, often losing it for comic effect!