Old Time Radio: The Shadow - Message from the Hills
0Broadcast: May 22, 1938
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:
High on a mountain, on a desert island, there's an isolated diamond mine. The diamonds are shipped out every three months, Jake and Jordan are plotting to rob the diamond mine, with one of the shipments containing enough diamonds to keep the men living the life of aristocrats for the rest of their lives...