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THE SHADOW, written by David Koepp, and directed by Russell Mulcahy, based on the adventures of a Batman-like caped crusader created in 1931 by Walter B. Gibson, opens nationally. Alec Baldwin stars as Lamont Cranston, a World War 1 veteran turned opium kingpin who, after spending seven redemptive years learning the secrets of invisibility and mind-bending from a mysterious Tibetian holy man, returns to New York where his daytime persona as a millionaire playboy provides him with the perfect cover to deploy his eponymous alter ego's new powers against the city's unsuspecting evil-doers. With its meticulously designed art-deco style cityscapes and fluorescent chiaroscuro perfectly evoking its 1930s comic book aesthetic, the film is seen as a flawed classic undeserving of its box-office failure. Co-starring John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle and Ian McKellen.
