I just still love this movie, FX and music and pulp plot and all.
+Kay Hill's comment: "Alec Baldwin was quite a looker back then." Or something to that effect.
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3.5 stars out of 5, with a heart.
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it should have done better at the box office, but likt the phantom, bombed.
I, too, enjoyed it a lot, and agree with Katherine, Alec never looked better.
I thought it was fun. I actually got a couple of the episodes of the original radio drama for Christmas after seeing this. Maybe it was just from being a tiny few of a serial, but I almost preferred the movie.
+greg zapiec Well, the radio serials were a particular form (and from an era) very different from a modern (well, 90s) Hollywood action flick. Both can be appreciated on their own, but it's quite possible to have a preference.
I have a couple of books on The Shadow, including an omnibus of four original stories from the magazine. The stories were well written, but there was no one author. There was a writer who wrote over 70% of them. In any case the film got a lot of details right!
+Laura Ess Yeah, it really did try to adhere to a lot of the mythology (though Kent Allard is never mentioned, among other things).
Well that character was a bit of a Retcon in the original stories. I mean, yes, he was supposed to be who the Shadow was, but later the "real KA turned up! In the Howard Chaykin comic version Kent is the villain.
+Laura Ess Well, I'd never consider Howard Chaykin as canon, though he writes an interesting Shadow. 🙂
The shadow knows!
+sarah hanlon BWAH-HA-HA!