International Crime
International Crime

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Lamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas E. Jackson). He complains to his managing editor, Edward Heath (Oscar O'Shea), over the problems that have developed in his department since Phoebe Lane (Astrid Allwyn) has been hired as his assistant. He is advised to forget it ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in International Crime:

Rod La Rocque
Astrid Allwyn
Thomas E. Jackson
Oscar O'Shea
Lew Hearn
Wilhelm von Brincken

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Lamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes passes the friendly stage with Police Commissioner Weston (Thomas E. Jackson). He complains to his managing editor, Edward Heath (Oscar O'Shea), over the problems that have developed in his department since Phoebe Lane (Astrid Allwyn) has been hired as his assistant. He is advised to forget it since she is the publisher's niece. During his broadcast about Honest John (William Pawley), a famous safe cracker who has served his time, Phoebe gives him a note that the Metropolitan Theatre is to be robbed at eight o'clock and she is so insistent that he adds it as his closing note. Off the air, he learns she got the information from a man she met in a café who had an honest face. Cranston goes to the theatre where Weston and his men have gathered and, of course, nothing happens but, across town, a safe is blown at the home of international banker Gerald Morton (John St. Polis) and the banker is killed. Cranston arrives there ahead of the police and discovers enough evidence to show him that it wasn't just a simple robbery with the banker accidentally killed. The irate Weston has him jailed as a material witness, but Phoebe comes through with a habeas corpus in time for him to make his broadcast. Honest John crashes into the studio with a gun and demands that Cranston exonerates him over the air from the police suspicion that he committed the robbery. Weston rushes to the studio but Honest John has escaped. Cranston takes Phoebe on a tour of night clubs hoping she will spot the man who gave her the robbery message. She does and Cranston poses as a new arrival from Europe and learns that the man is Flotow (Wilhelm von Brincken) and his companion is Starkov (Tenen Holtz'). They make a date for lunch the next day. While they are waiting for him to join them for lunch, Cranston breaks into Flathow's apartment where he meets Phoebe who also has had the same idea. A phone call is answered and Morton's butler says there is a meeting at the Morton home that afternoon.

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User Review - 6/10 by Aj VWhat I like about this movie was the main character's radio show and how he would make fun of the police, it was funny, but the rest of the movie isn't that interesting.
User Review - 6/10 by Brian BRod La Rocque has great charisma, but unfortunately he is not "The Shadow." If the movie was an ordinary who-done-it, it would likely be better accepted. However, as it stands it is a weak Thin Man wannabe.
User Review - 6/10 by Michael H5.5/10. Based on the popular radio series "The Shadow", decent mystery, okay cast. Low budget but it still has a good look to it. Short and sweet, never boring.
User Review - 2/10 by Steve MThe Shadow DVD Double Feature (The Shadow Strikes/International Crime) Starring: Rod La Rocque and Astrid Allwyn There are times when I wonder why production companies who spend good money on licensing existing properties don't keep their writers and directors in line when it comes to creating the screen adaptations. Heck, I don't understand *at all* why the owners of properties that are licenesed don't insist on some form of oversight and/or quality control veto-rights over what the licensee does with their creations. (And I hope to some day be fortunate enough to work on a propety where the owner doesn't care what the heck I do with it... so far, I've never quite been in that position, as every licensed property I've worked on has come with a very attentive and concerned person reviewing my work for the licensor.) Take the truly awful adaptations of pulp-fiction giant The Shadow that are featured on "The Shadow DVD Double Feature (The Shadow Strikes and International Crime)" disc. The two 1937 B-features on this DVD bear only a passing resemblence to The Shadow and the adventures presented on radio and in print at the time. There's very little of the mystery (and none of the horror/thriller aspect) that surounds The Shadow and his cases... and Lamont Cranston exhibits no supernatural ability to "cloud men's mind" in either feature. "The Shadow Strikes" comes closest as actor Rod La Rocque at least wears the trademark outfit (even if the cloak makes LaRoque look like a fat guy in a fedora instead of a mysterious crime-fighter) and works in the shadows to track down mysterious criminals. However, in "International Crime," Cranston is a hardboiled radio commentator and criminologist who has a bad relationship with the police and solves crime more through trickery than detection. His identity as The Shadow is widely known, as it's the name of his radio show rather than a masked alter-ego. Worse, the ever-charming and resourceful Margo Lane from the real stories and radio plays, who was always there to help both Cranston and his Shadow alter-ego, isn't anywhere to be found in "The Shadow Strikes," and is replaced in "International Crime" by a similarly named, truly annoying girl reporter (played by Astrid Allwyn, who is really the only attractive thing about "International Crime"). Whatever the reason, both these adaptations either got rid of what made The Shadow cool in the first place, or the scripts were pre-existing dogs on a production house's shelf that someone slapped The Shadow name on, and renamed the male lead "Cranston." There isn't anything to recommend these flicks to even for the biggest fans of The Shadow, or even to lovers of film noir and pulp fiction. They are just plain bad. Stay up late and listen for The Shadow radio plays on "When Radio Was."

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