Shadow

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

A crime fighter created in the 1930s and popularized in movies, pulp novels, and a radio show starring a young Orson Welles, The Shadow came back to life in 1994 in this slick, well-cast production. Alec Baldwin stars as Lamont Cranston, a murderous opium dealer reformed by a Tibetan mystic, who teaches him how to use his keen mental powers to manipulate others. As penance for his past misdeeds, Cranston masquerades as a degenerate New York City playboy by day and secretly plays the heroic Shadow by night, staving off evildoers with a network of agents and a cab-driving sidekick (Peter Boyle). A greater challenge arrives when Cranston must fight Shiwan Khan (John Lone), the final descendent of Genghis Khan, who has received training from the same Tibetan master who instructed Cranston. Shiwan plans to use atomic weapons to take over New York and then the world. At the same time, Cranston meets socialite Margo Lane (Penelope Ann Miller), and, although he's instantly enamored of her, he discovers that her psychic abilities render his secret identity vulnerable. The Shadow was directed by former music video creator Russell Mulcahy, whose feature film debut Highlander (1986) was a cult classic. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Audio: 5.1
• Screen: Pan and Scan
• Subtitle: Spanish
• Features:
  • • [None specified]

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Russell Mulcahy

• Producer:

  Martin Bregman, Ortwin Freyermuth, Louis A. Stroller, Stan Weston, Michael S. Bregman, Rolf Deyhle, Willi Baer

• Screenwriter:

  Howard Franklin, Bob Gale, David Koepp, Robert Zemeckis

• Cinematographer:

  Stephen H. Burum

• Composer (Music Score):

  Jerry Goldsmith

• Musical Direction/Supervision:

  Keith A. Wester

• Editor:

  Peter Honess

• Production Designer:

  Patricia Churchill, Joseph C. Nemec III

• Art Director:

  Steven Wolff, Dan Olexiewicz, Jack Johnson

• Associate Producer:

  Patricia Churchill

• Set Designer:

  Garry Lewis

• Costume Designer:

  Bob Ringwood

• Makeup:

  Greg Cannon, Carl Fullerton

• Special Effects:

  Alison Savitch

• Camera Operator:

  Dustin Blauvelt

• Stunts:

  Dick Ziker, Chuck Picerni, Jr.

• Casting:

  Mary Colquhoun