The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline
Released: 1937 // Runtime: 62m // Rating: 4.4
Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney. Before he can leave, a phone call summons the attorney to the home of Delthern, a wealthy client, who wants a new will drawn up. As Cranston meets with him, Delthern is suddenly shot, and Cranston is quickly caught up in a new mystery.
Released: 1938 // Runtime: 62m // Rating: 5.3
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.
Released: 1940 // Runtime: 285m // Rating: 6.5
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
Released: 1946 // Runtime: 61m // Rating: 5.3
The Shadow (Kane Richmond) cracks a case of missing jewels, murder and plastics.
Released: 1946 // Runtime: 68m // Rating: 5.0
Falsely accused of murdering a crooked newspaper reporter, suave detective Lamont Cranston -- aka the Shadow -- vows to track down the real killer.
Released: 1946 // Runtime: 60m // Rating: 4.6
While investigating the theft of a valuable jade statue known as "The Missing Lady" -- and the subsequent murder of an art dealer -- imperceptible sleuth Lamont Cranston aka the Shadow (Kane Richmond) finds himself being blamed for the crime. It doesn't help the Shadow's claims of innocence when more bodies begin piling up. Good thing he knows exactly who's guilty among an increasingly smaller group of suspects.
Released: 1958 // Runtime: 70m // Rating: 5.1
Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader.
Released: 1994 // Runtime: 108m // Rating: 6.1
Based on the 1930s comic strip, The Shadow is put up against his archenemy Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city to ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "the power to cloud men's minds", The Shadow comes blazing to the rescue with explosive results.
