Kīla (Buddhism)

The Shadow (1994)

Actors: Ethan Phillips (actor), Ian McKellen (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), John Kapelos (actor), Aaron Lustig (actor), Gerald Okamura (actor), James Lew (actor), James Hong (actor), Tim Curry (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Peter Boyle (actor), Abraham Benrubi (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Nils Allen Stewart (actor), Sab Shimono (actor),

Plot: Based on the 1930's pulp fiction and radio drama series, the film pits the hero against his arch enemy, Shiwan Khan, who plans to take over the world by holding a city ransom using an atom bomb. Using his powers of invisibility and "The power to cloud men's minds", the Shadow comes blazing to the city's rescue with explosive results.

Keywords: 1930s, anti-hero, attempted-murder, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, based-on-pulp-magazine, based-on-radio-show, blonde, bomb, box-office-flop
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: The Shadow Knows! Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

Quotes:

Moe Shrevnitz: [puts a ring from the Shadow on Tam's finger] Don't ever take it off.::Dr. Roy Tam: [confused] Who *are* you?::Moe Shrevnitz: [holds up his hand with an identical ring on it] Somebody who owes him their life... somebody just like *you*.

The Shadow: I saved your life, Roy Tam. It now belongs to me.::Dr. Roy Tam: It does?

Margo Lane: Oh, God I dreamed.::Lamont Cranston: So did I. What did you dream?::Margo Lane: I was lying naked on a beach in the South Seas. The tide was coming up to my toes. The sun was beating down. My skin hot and cool at the same time. It was wonderful. What was yours?::Lamont Cranston: I dreamed I tore all the skin off my face and was somebody else underneath.::Margo Lane: You have problems.::Lamont Cranston: I'm aware of that.

[repeated line]::Moe Shrevnitz: Somebody's coming.

Shiwan Khan: Your mind is like an open book to me!::Lamont Cranston: Then learn how to read!

Lamont Cranston: You are a barbarian.::Shiwan Khan: Thank you.

Shiwan Khan: In three days, the entire world will hear my roar, and willingly fall subject to the lost empire of Shan Kahn. That is a lovely tie, by the way. May I ask where you acquire it::Lamont Cranston: Brooks Brothers.::Shiwan Khan: Is that mid-town.::Lamont Cranston: 45th and Madison. You are a barbarian.::Shiwan Khan: Thank you. We both are.

Margo Lane: We need each other.::Lamont Cranston: No we don't.::Margo Lane: We have a connection.::Lamont Cranston: No we don't.::Margo Lane: Then how can you explain that I can read your thoughts?::Lamont Cranston: My thoughts are hard to miss.::Margo Lane: And why is that?::Lamont Cranston: Psychically, I'm very well endowed.::Margo Lane: I'll bet you are.

Dr. Roy Tam: I guess you would call it an implosive-explosive sub-molecular device.::Lamont Cranston: Or an Atomic Bomb.::Dr. Roy Tam: Hey, that's catchy.

Lamont Cranston: Am I in hell?::Tulku: Not yet.