The Shadow
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
C. C. Coleman Jr.
Rita Hayworth
Charles Quigley
Marc Lawrence
Arthur Loft
Dick Curtis
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Mary Gillespie has been managing Colonel Gillespie's Circus ever since her father died and left her in charge. With the help of Jim Quinn, a press agent and barker who is in love with Mary, the circus has become a success. When Mary tells the performers that she can now pay their back salaries, Señor Martinet, the much-loathed star rider of the circus, tells her that her efforts are in vain as she is about to lose the circus to him because of an unpaid $60,000 debt. Jim tries but fails to borrow the requisite amount to keep the circus in Mary's hands. The night after Marianne, the fortune-teller, predicts that two men and a woman in the circus will be killed, poison darts are stolen from the circus office. During the next performance, Martinet falls from his horse and dies, and an investigation reveals that he was killed by a poison dart hidden in the horse's harness. Soon after Vindecco, the horse groom, tells Mary who he thinks the murderer is, he too is killed by a poison dart. When Mary is attacked by a cloaked figure, Jim comes to her aid and wards off the attacker. Jim then frames Mary for the murders so that the sheriff will keep a close eye on her at the jail and keep her out of danger. As part of his plan to trap the killer, Jim replaces the poison darts, which have been mysteriously returned to the office, with harmless ones. The killer is soon lured into Jim's trap and, thinking that Jim is dead, moves in to examine the body. Once the figure is within reach, Jim grabs it and manages to bite its arm before it flees. Later, the sheriff assembles all the circus performers and examines their arms to determine who the killer is. None of the performers appear to be scarred, but when Jim splits the fake Siamese twins, Dolores and Rosa, with a sword, he discovers teeth marks on Dolores' hand and finds his killer. Dolores, it is learned, is Martinet's wife and killed him out of revenge for mistreating her. It is also learned that Dolores attempted to kill the others because they knew of her crime. With the mystery solved, Jim and Mary resume their business and romantic association.
Director
C. C. Coleman Jr.
Cast
Rita Hayworth
Charles Quigley
Marc Lawrence
Arthur Loft
Dick Curtis
Vernon Dent
Marjorie Main
Donald Kirke
Dwight Frye
Bess Flowers
Bill Irving
Eddie Fetherston
Sally St. Clair
Sue St. Clair
John Tyrrell
Beatrice Curtis
Ann Doran
Beatrice Blinn
Bud Jamison
Harry Strang
Francis Sayles
Edward Hearn
Edward J. Lesaint
Mr. And Mrs. Clemons
Ted Mangean
Harry Bernard
George Hickman
Ernie Adams
Crew
Lucien Ballard
Lionel Banks
Irving Briskin
Bob Farfan
Stephen Goosson
Lambert Hillyer
Arthur T. Horman
Kalloch
Wallace Macdonald
William Mull
Milton Raison
Byron Robinson
Morris Stoloff
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
This is the first movie in which Margarita Carmen Cansino was billed as Rita Hayworth.
Notes
A working title for this film was Carnival Lady. Modern sources list the following additional credits: Costume supervision by Ray Howell; and Chief sound engineer, John Livadary.
