| The "Butcher of Lhasa" is also known as Yinko, played | | | | recruits Mongolon warriors as his followers. He visits |
| by Alec Baldwin, is a ruthless opium drug dealer who | | | | Lamont and Shiwan tells him that he also was lectured |
| made a practice of taking other's opium fields and killing | | | | by the Chinese priest. Shiwan asks Lamont to join him |
| anyone who crosses his path. One night, Yinko is | | | | in his worldwide takeover as Yinko, his former self. |
| kidnapped from his estate and taken to a Chinese | | | | Lamont refuses.Shiwan hypnotizes Margo Lane's |
| temple. Once there, he meets a priest who know | | | | father, who is a leading scientist, played by Ian |
| Yinko's true name, Lamont Crankston. This priest | | | | McKellen, to build and atomic bomb. Tim Curry, who |
| teaches Lamont to overcome the evil in his own heart | | | | played father Lane's assistant, also helped in the task |
| and to combat crime and to cloud men's minds, thus | | | | of his own free will. Knowing that Lamont is the |
| becoming "The Shadow".New York City, early 1900s. | | | | shadow, Shiwan hypnotizes Margo into killing him. |
| Lamont Crankston aka "The Shadow" just rescued a | | | | Margo arrives at Lamont's home and with a failed |
| professor at NYU from a group of thugs who were | | | | murder attempt, Lamont breaks the spell over Margo. |
| about to throw him over the New York City bridge. | | | | She realizes that Lamont is The Shadow as well, but |
| The Shadow and Professor Tam are both riding a | | | | she promises to keep his secret between the two of |
| cab and The Shadow recruits Professor Tam as one | | | | them. Margo asks for Lamont's help because her |
| of his fellow "contacts". Professor Tam is let out of the | | | | father has disappeared. Together they find the |
| cab at his home. The cab driver, played by Peter | | | | whereabouts of Margo's father and Shiwan Khan at a |
| Boyle, is actually another of Lamont/The Shadow's | | | | Hotel Monolith. This hotel was hidden in plain site |
| fellow contact and loyal friend. The Shadow tells the | | | | because Shiwan cast a spell over the whole city NOT |
| cab driver to take him to the Cobalt Club as he | | | | to see it. The Shadow strikes at the Hotel Monolith, |
| transforms back into Lamont Crankston.Once at the | | | | defeating Shiwan's warriors until only Shiwan remained. |
| Cobalt Club, Lamont meets his uncle, played by | | | | Meanwhile, Margo and her father are trying to stop the |
| Jonathan Winter, who is also the head of police. As | | | | time sequence on the atomic bomb; they succeed. |
| they talk, Margo Lane, played by Penelope Ann Miller, | | | | The Shadow and Shiwan have a battle of the mind in |
| enters the club. Lamont is easily attracted to her and | | | | a room full of mirrors. The Shadow had a piece of the |
| invite her to dinner at a Chinese restaurant. She | | | | mirror strike Shiwan's brain, therefore defeating him. |
| accepts. As they both enjoy their dinner, Lamont | | | | Shiwan ends up in an insane asylum, where one of the |
| notices that Margo has the gift of reading people's | | | | doctors is a friend of The Shadow. The doctor tells |
| thoughts, for the simple reason that she read his. | | | | Shiwan that a part of his brain had to be removed, the |
| Lamont takes Margo home.At a museum, Shiwan | | | | part that is used for telepathy. Shiwan is left in a room |
| Khan, the last descendant of Genghis Khan, is hidden in | | | | at the asylum outraged. Lamont and Margo kiss each |
| his ancestor's crypt. He escapes the museum and | | | | other and then parted ways. |