# The Whispering Shadow (1933)

A mysterious scientific genius kills people using a remote controlled "death ray" and commits crimes by directing his agents through television. The brother of one of his victims suspects the eerie Professor Strang, whose ghostly wax museum contains figures that are far too lifelike, but eventually joins forces with the professor's daughter. The Whispering Shadow's real identity is not revealed until the last chapter. a 12-chapter cliffhanger serial picture quality is below average Bela Lugosi as Prof. Adam Anton Strang Viva Tattersall as Vera Strang Malcolm McGregor as Jack Foster Henry B. Walthall as J.D. Bradley - Company President Robert Warwick as Detective Robert Raymond Ethel Clayton as The Countess Helen Roy D'Arcy as Prof. Alexis Steinbeck Karl Dane as Sparks - Dispatcher Lloyd Whitlock as Young - Henchman #3 Bob Kortman as Jasper Slade, an escaped convict Lafe McKee as D.W. Jerome, a company vice president

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1933
- By: Mascot Pictures
- Genres: Drama, Crime, Adventure
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/whispering-shadow)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1933; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2028. Unclear is not offered.