The Whispering Shadow
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The Whispering Shadow was the first of five serials starring Bela Lugosi. As the owner of a wax museum, Lugosi’s character is suspected of being a mysterious criminal who can project his voice and shadow to any location and remotely inflict death by electrocution. Lugosi was paid $10,000, one of his biggest paychecks, for the relatively small part.
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Production Company: Mascot
Producer: Nat Levine
Associate Producer: Victor Zobel
Director: Al Herman and Colbert Clark
Assistant Directors: George Webster and Theo Joos
Screenplay: George Morgan, Colbert Clark, Wyndham Gittens, Howard Bimberg, Barney Sarecky and Norman S. Hall
Cinematography: Ernest Miller and Edgar Lyons
Production supervisor: Victor Zobel
Production Manager: Larry Wickland
Musical Director:Lee Zahler
Sound Engineer: Homer Ackerman
Editor: Ray Snyder and Gilmore Walker
Stunt Corordinator: Yakima Canutt
Stuntman: Eddie Parker
Bela Lugosi’s stunt double: George Magrill
Running Time: 12 Chapters
Cast:
Bela Lugosi: Professor Adam Strang
Viva Tattersall: Vera Strang
Malcolm McGregor: Jack Foster
Henry B. Waltham: J.D. Bradley
Robert Warwick: Detective Robert Raymond
Ethel Clayton: The Countess Helen
Roy D’Arcy: Professor Alexis Steinbeck
Karl Dane: Sparks the dispatcher
Lloyd Whitlock: Young
Bob Kortman: Jasper Slade
Lafe McKee: D.W. Jerome
George J. Lewis: Bud Foster
Jack Perrin: Williams
Max Wagner: Kruger
Kernan Cripps: Murphy, the driver
Eddie Parker: Driver Bud’s partner
Gordon De Main: Detective
George Magrill: Mitchell
Tom London: Dupont
Lionel Backus: W.B. Jarvis
Norman Feusier: Deane
Yakima Canutt: Detective
William Desmond: Empire Transport Co. driver
Robert Frazer: Official
George J. Lewis: Bud Foster
George Morrell: Empire Warehouse worker
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Chapters:
The Master Magician
The Collapsing Room
The All-Seeing Eye
The Shadow Strikes
Wanted For Murder
The Man Who Was Czar
The Double Doom
The Red Circle
The Fatal Secret
The Death Warrant
The Trap
King of the World
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Variety, November 29, 1932
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The Telegraph, July 5, 1933
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Spokane Daily Chronicle, August 25, 1933
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The Virgin Islands Daily News, December 19, 1946
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Posters
Chapter Three One Sheet
Chapter Five One Sheet
Chapter Seven One Sheet
French Chapter Three One Sheet
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Lobby Cards
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Twelve
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Stills
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