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* EvilLaughter: Naturally, the Shadow does this throughout the film.
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* ShotAtDawn: The Generalissimo releases a newsreel of Pablo's twin brother Victor being executed by firing squad to lure Pablo out of hiding.
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* ShotAtDawn: The Generalissimo releases a newsreel of Pablo's twin brother Victor being executed by firing squad to lure Pablo out of hiding. La
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* LastBreathBullet: After Victor shoots the Colonel after mistaking him for the Shadow, the Colonel uses his dying strength to shoot and kill Victor.
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* JediMindTrick: The Shadow uses his psychic powers to cause [[PerceptionFilter others to be unable to see him]]. His shadow remains visible.
* LastBreathBullet: After Victor [[FriendOrFoe shoots the Colonel after mistaking him for theShadow, Shadow]], the Colonel uses his dying strength to shoot and kill Victor.Victor.
* NoNameGiven: The Colonel, who is one of the major villains, is never referred to by anything other than his rank.
* LastBreathBullet: After Victor [[FriendOrFoe shoots the Colonel after mistaking him for the
* NoNameGiven: The Colonel, who is one of the major villains, is never referred to by anything other than his rank.
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* PerceptionFilter: The Shadow uses his [[JediMindTrick psychic powers to cause others to be unable to see him]]. His shadow remains visible.
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* {{Invisibility}}: Unsurprisingly, the Shadow's main ability is invisibility. Here it is a form of hypnosis that causes [[PerceptionFilter people not to see him]], but causes his shadow to still be visible.
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* FriendOrFoe: After the Shadow turns invisible on the yacht, Victor panic fires when he sees movement and hits his ally the Colonel instead. The Colonel assumes this is a deliberate act of betrayal and delivers a LastBreathBullet to Victor.
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* ShotAtDawn: The Generalissimo releases a newsreel of Pablo's twin brother Victor being executed by firing squad to lure Pablo out of hiding.
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* BananaRepublic: The plot centres around Pablo Ramirez, the exiled ruler of a Caribbean nation of Santa Cruz, who was ousted by the dictator known as the Generalissimo. Ramirez is organizing a rebellion against the Generalissimo while the Generalissimo's secret police scour New Orleans for him.
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* BananaRepublic: The plot centres around Pablo Ramirez, the exiled ruler of a the Caribbean nation of Santa Cruz, who was ousted by the dictator known as the Generalissimo. Ramirez is organizing a rebellion against the Generalissimo while the Generalissimo's secret police scour New Orleans for him.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: See that scene on the poster? The woman on a staircase being threatened by a madman with a knife? Does not occur anywhere in the movie.
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* BananaRepublic: The plot centres around Pablo Ramirez, the exiled ruler of a Caribbean nation of Santa Cruz, who was ousted by the dictator known as the Generalissimo. Ramirez is organizing a rebellion against the Generalissimo while the Generalissimo's secret police scour New Orleans for him.
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* TheGhost: The Generalissimo is mentioned throughout the film, and is the driving force behind the events, but he never actually appears, and is mentioned as having been killed in the off-screen revolution at the end.
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* TapOnTheHead: Victor knocks out his niece Felecia by [[PistolWhipping rapping her one the back of the head with his pistol]].
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* PistolWhipping: Victor knocks out his niece Felecia by rapping her one the back of the head with his pistol.
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* FakingTheDead: The Generalissimo stages a fake execution of Pablo's twin brother Victor in order to lure Pablo out of hiding.
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* LastBreathBullet: After Victor shoots the Colonel after mistaking him for the Shadow, the Colonel uses his dying strength to shoot and kill Victor.
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* BodybagTrick: The Generalissimo's men attempt to smuggle Pablo Ramirez out of New Orleans in a coffin inside a hearse: knowing that the police will not stop a funeral procession.
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* HypnoticEyes: Cranston stares intently whenever he exercises his psychic powers.
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* HypnoticEyes: Cranston stares intently whenever he exercises his psychic powers.and Joegendra are able to hypontise people simply by staring into their eyes intently: no words need be spoken.
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* CarFu: The Generalissimo's secret police attempt to run Cranston down, by he is warned by a psychic warning from his mentor Joegendra.
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* DeadMansChest: The Shadow finds Tony's body stuffed into an upright piano in a back room of Tara's club.
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* FailedPilotEpisode: This film was originally intended as a pilot for a ''Radio/TheShadow'' TV series. However, it was turned into a movie instead
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* HypnoticEyes: Cranston stares intently whenever he exercises his psychic powers.
* HypnoticEyes: Cranston stares intently whenever he exercises his psychic powers.
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''Invisible Avenger'' is a 1958 FilmNoir crime film directed by James Wong Howe, Ben Parker and John Sledge. The film is a CompilationMovie made from two episodes of a 1957 Creator/RepublicPictures television pilot for ''Radio/TheShadow''.
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''Invisible Avenger'' (a.k.a. ''Bourbon Street Shadows'') is a 1958 FilmNoir crime film directed by James Wong Howe, Ben Parker and John Sledge. The film is a CompilationMovie made from two episodes of a 1957 Creator/RepublicPictures television pilot for ''Radio/TheShadow''.
''Invisible Avenger'' (a.k.a. ''Bourbon Street Shadows'') is a 1958 FilmNoir crime film directed by James Wong Howe, Ben Parker and John Sledge. The film is a CompilationMovie made from two episodes of a 1957 Creator/RepublicPictures television pilot for ''Radio/TheShadow''.
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Re-released in 1962 with additional, 'more adult,' footage added, as ''Bourbon Street Shadows''.
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''Invisible Avenger'' is a 1958 FilmNoir crime film directed by James Wong Howe, Ben Parker and John Sledge. The film is a CompilationMovie made from two episodes of a 1957 Republic Pictures television pilot for ''Radio/TheShadow''.
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''Invisible Avenger'' is a 1958 FilmNoir crime film directed by James Wong Howe, Ben Parker and John Sledge. The film is a CompilationMovie made from two episodes of a 1957 Republic Pictures Creator/RepublicPictures television pilot for ''Radio/TheShadow''.
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* CompilationMovie: The film is compiled from episodes that were shot for a ''Radio/TheShadow'' television series that never reached the air.
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''Invisible Avenger'' is a 1958 FilmNoir crime film directed by James Wong Howe, Ben Parker and John Sledge. The film is a CompilationMovie made from two episodes of a 1957 Republic Pictures television pilot for ''Radio/TheShadow''.
When Pablo Ramirez, the exiled ruler the Caribbean nation of Santa Cruz now living in New Orleans, becomes a target of a kidnapping, Lamont Cranston and his mentor, a mystic named Joegendra, team up and put their mind-altering skills to work to help the man.
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* TheBigEasy: The film is set in, and was shot on location in, New Orleans.
* DisconnectedByDeath: In the midst of a telephone call to Cranston, Tony Alcade is murdered by the secret police.
* PublicExecution: The Generalissimo broadcasts the execution of Pablo's twin brother that is shown on television in the United States in a scheme to draw Pablo into the open.
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When Pablo Ramirez, the exiled ruler the Caribbean nation of Santa Cruz now living in New Orleans, becomes a target of a kidnapping, Lamont Cranston and his mentor, a mystic named Joegendra, team up and put their mind-altering skills to work to help the man.
!!Tropes:
* TheBigEasy: The film is set in, and was shot on location in, New Orleans.
* DisconnectedByDeath: In the midst of a telephone call to Cranston, Tony Alcade is murdered by the secret police.
* PublicExecution: The Generalissimo broadcasts the execution of Pablo's twin brother that is shown on television in the United States in a scheme to draw Pablo into the open.
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