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29/12/2016

The Shadow: Sabotage with Orson Welles

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1938: Sag Island shipyard is a place of treachery, but someone is watching.

4 Extra Debut. 1938: Sag Island shipyard is a place of treachery, but someone is watching. Orson Welles stars as the intrepid crime fighter.

Mysterious explosions aboard ships at sea are blamed on sabotage. Intrepid crime fighter, Lamont Cranston sets off to investigate the shipyard where the ships are built on Sag Island...

Broadcast across America from 1937-1954, a young Orson Welles originated and played the role of "wealthy young man about town" Lamont Cranston until 1938. 

With Agnes Moorehead as Margot Lane. 

Dramatised from the printed stories.

One of a series of selected shows from the golden days of American radio in the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's greatest screen stars were regular performers - often re-enacting their famous film roles.

First broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System in the USA in 1938.

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