Old Time Radio: The Shadow - One Dead and Two to Go
0Broadcast: February 1, 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:
It is midnight, and in the dark offices of the Midland Security Company, two men work feverishly behind the guarded beam of a flashlight. They know that the watchman checks the spot every half an hour, so they need to work fast. Louis and Petey finally get the loot - at least $100,000 - but only Louis manages to escape when the armed watchman discovers the robbery. Peterson is sent to jail, but when he escapes, he makes his way to seek revenge, and his share of the $100,000...