![]() ![]() The fluid nature of the character is only fitting as The Shadow is full of surprises. The radio version of The Shadow was different then the magazine version and so on. The movie is a amalgamation of the different versions of The Shadow. Sadly, it didn't really click with audiences and didn't produce a couple of sequels. I loved (and still do) every minute of it. The picture starred Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Ian McKellen, Peter Boyle AND Tim Curry, which is a seriously stacked cast and was stylishly directed by Russell Mulcahy. I got the action figures, trading cards and I remember really wanting the lunchbox. Though, really Batman was still the next Batman. A couple years later I found out about The Phantom too. See? I already had molded myself into pretty much the same guy I am today, just smaller. Then more Batman and The Rocketeer plus the discovery of Indiana Jones. I was four-years old in the theater mesmerized by Tim Burton's "Batman," then I got caught up in Dick Tracy fever the following year. I had been poised (brainwashed) by Hollywood to lap up the glamorous adventure of arguable the most famous of the old-school Pulp Heroes. ![]() I was the perfect age for The Shadow in 1994. ![]()
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