Old Time Radio: The Shadow - Drum Of Obi
0Broadcast: 24th October 1948
The shadow was amateur criminologist Lamont Cranston. He had learned “the hypnotic power to cloud men’s minds so that they cannot see him”. The opening to the show, “Who knows … what evil … lllllurks … in the heart of men? … The Shadow knows! His “friend and companion, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible Shadow belongs”. Together they confront the maddest assortment of lunatics, sadists, ghosts and werewolves ever heard on the air. In this episode:
Cranston wanted to find a simple and logical explanation for the weird happenings in the House of Jedrick a bleak castle overlooking the sea, happenings which appear to be caused by Layo a Jamaican high priest.
Cast: Bret Morrison, Grace Matthews