Shadow [DVD] [1994] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Alec Baldwin
  • Actor : John Lone
  • Actor : Penelope Ann Miller
  • Actor : Peter Boyle
  • Actor : Ian McKellen
  • Aspect Ratio : 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Alec Baldwin
  • Creator : John Lone
  • Director : Russell Mulcahy
  • EAN : 9780783230696
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : Dolby
  • Format : DTS Surround Sound
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Full Screen
  • Format : Live
  • Format : NTSC
  • ISBN : 0783230699
  • Label : Universal Studios
  • Languages : Original Language: English
  • Manufacturer : Universal Studios
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.40 inches (Length) x 0.25 pounds (Weight) x 4.90 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Universal Studios
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 1999-02-23
  • Running Time : 108
  • SKU : 025192045424
  • Studio : Universal Studios
  • UPC : 025192045424

Another masked avenger is reincarnated as a big budget movie. Idle playboy Lamont Cranston (Alec Baldwin), schooled in Tibetan mysticism, fights crime in late '30s New York while wearing a natty hat and false beak. He finds time to romance telepathic sweetie Margo Lane (Penelope Miller), whose crusty old scientist Dad (Ian McKellen) has just invented an atom bomb which is in danger of falling into the hands of Shiwan Khan (John Lone), conquest-happy last descendent of Genghis Khan.Director Russell Mulcahy turns out the regulation death traps (a locked chamber filling with water, a bomb timer which ticks away during the climax) and the Shadow breezes through via nifty "invisible" effects. It evokes the conventions and charms of 1930s' pulp fiction in rather more nostalgic mode than Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and adds little of its own attitude, although a sly camp sensibility (notably in the extremely chi-chi Tim Curry and John Lone as the villains) goes for snickering at the expense of tension. A pleasant, eye-pleasing movie but, after the super-heroic likes of Batman, The Crow and The Mask, the merely mysterious Shadow seems somewhat grandfatherly and remote. --Kim Newman

- Amazon.co.uk Review

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