Behind the Mask (1946)

Monogram Pictures released Behind the Mask (1946), the second of three films based on the popular Shadow radio program, on May 25, 1946. “<ช่วง bbox_x = "743" bbox_y = "542" bbox_w = "9" bbox_h = "20" fsize fweight = "14" = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = "” Film leading actor Kane Richmond returns as Lamont Cranston, the alter ego of the mysterious Shadow.

The film begins by following the activities a blackmailing newspaper reporter Jeff Mann, played by James Cardwell. After threatening several people with exposure, if they do not continue paying him off, Mann returns to his office at the newspaper.

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Kane Richmond in Tough to Handle (1937) จากโดเมนสาธารณะ

A few minutes after he returns to the office, Mann is supposedly confronted by the Shadow and killed. The “Shadow” escapes before the other officer members can break into Mann’s office.

Meanwhile, the real Shadow, Lamont Cranston, is at his fiance Margo Lane’s apartment preparing for their marriage. Cranston’s uncle is the Police Commissioner, who leaves the party to investigate Mann’s murder by the “Shadow”. Cranston knows he must solve the crime and clear the Shadow’s name before he can marry Margo.

Barbara Reed played Margo Lane in all three of the Shadow films, The Shadow Returns (1946), Behind the Mask และ The Missing Lady (1946). Reed was born on December 29, 1917 in Port Arthur, <ช่วง bbox_x = "554" bbox_y = "1302" bbox_w bbox_h = "47" = "20" fsize fweight = "14" = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = ", Canada. By the age of 19, she was acting in films.

Reed would appear in 22 <ช่วง bbox_x = "557" bbox_y = "1134" bbox_w = "29" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = ", mostly as a leading lady in “<ช่วง bbox_x = "743" bbox_y = "542" bbox_w = "9" bbox_h = "20" fsize fweight = "14" = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = "” <ช่วง bbox_x = "557" bbox_y = "1134" bbox_w = "29" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = ". อนาถ, Reed struggled with alcoholism and would end her life at only 45 years of age on December 11, 1963. She suffocated herself with natural glass. Reed’s suicide note blamed her suicide on declining health.

Behind the Mask (affiliate link) runs about 58 นาที. I watched it on Amazon Prime. Critics panned the film but I don’t know what they are expecting from “<ช่วง bbox_x = "743" bbox_y = "542" bbox_w = "9" bbox_h = "20" fsize fweight = "14" = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = "” ภาพยนตร์. It is an entertaining 1 hour film. It wasn’t filmed to be a classic.

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