The Shadow (1954 TV Movie)

Tom Helmore: Lamont Cranston

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  The Shadow : Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!

• [first lines] 

  Lamont Cranston : [narration]  This is where it started - suddenly and forever, what began - the Case of the Cotton Kimona.

• Commissioner Weston : Good evening, Margot, Lamont. Sorry to walk in on you like this.

  Lamont Cranston : We were on our way to the theater.

  Margot Lane : We *are* on our way to the theater.

  Commissioner Weston : Well, um...

  Margot Lane : Aren't we?

  Lamont Cranston : Hmm, I guess I owe the department something for that retainer they send me every month.

• [a woman sings off-key in the background] 

  Rollo Grimmbauer : Not a great voice, Mrs. Bettinger's, but she has the will to sing. That's all I require of my pupils - the will to sing.

  Lamont Cranston : Very democratic of you. Of course, it doesn't hurt anything if they also have blonde hair, blue eyes and hail from the Midwest, whose figure remains glamorous even in a cotton kimona.

• Lamont Cranston : Have it your way, Professor, but it won't take long to get a warrant... or a subpoena.

  Rollo Grimmbauer : I'm afraid I'll have to put you to that trouble.

  Lamont Cranston : Don't apologize - it will be a pleasure.

• Lamont Cranston : We're going to need help on this, m'lady - help from an old friend.

  Margot Lane : The Shadow?

• The Shadow : Have no fear for your sanity, Grimmbauer. You're too shallow and evil for that escape.

• The Shadow : Only the guilty need fear me and I see the terror in your eyes, my friend. I am all around you, here by your side though your eyes see nothing. You cannot escape me, Grimmbauer.

• Lamont Cranston : Very peculiar when you think about it.

  Margot Lane : What is?

  Lamont Cranston : That Cissy Chadwick should be wearing a cotton kimona to have dinner with her Number One Guy. Would she, taking for granted she's an average young woman?

  Margot Lane : Of course, she wouldn't! Why didn't I think of that? Unless everything she owned was at the cleaners or she didn't have anything else to wear...

• Detective Harry Harris : Who are you?

  The Shadow : I am the Shadow... the fear of retribution in men's minds. I am justice.