Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shadow" is not one of the all-time great movies...
Fifty years from now, people will not be dropping quotes from "The Shadow" the way they say, "Follow the yellow brick road" or "Tomorrow is another day." Film students will not get "The Shadow" covered in their Truly Incredible Movies classes. Reviewers will not have "The Shadow" on their top 10 movie lists for the 20th century...
...Alec Baldwin as Lamont Cranston, also known as the Shadow, the mysterious crime-fighter equally comfortable in Far East opium dens, dark alleys and posh clubs (even if he's always late for dinner with his uncle...
...movie version of the Shadow is based more than a little on Batman-a rich playboy with a darker side that he uses to fight crime. But Baldwin's Cranston has a bit more of an edge than Keaton's Batman. When we first meet him, he's known as "The Butcher," who has amassed a fortune in the Far East and is living a life of depravity in Tibet. Cranston is redeemed when a "holy man" forcibly takes the Westerner under his wing to teach him "how to cloud men's minds...
Cranston's career as the Shadow, then, is his penance for his formerly corrupt lifestyle, not a whim he indulges in. And he doesn't act alone. In fact, whenever the Shadow saves your life, it belongs to him, as he tells the scientist whom he rescues from mobsters at the beginning of the movie. The Shadow uses his "agents" to keep him posted on evil doings within the city...