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Definitely one of my holy grails!
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When the original CD OST came out, the archival recording from radio didn't sound to me like Orson Welles. I wonder if Intrada double-checked the origin info for that snippet, or if they just took the original album producers at their word?
Just curious.
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When the original CD OST came out, the archival recording from radio didn't sound to me like Orson Welles.
Speaking of people who didn't sound like Orson Welles, how about Alec Baldwin?
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I remember watching the film with my late father, who'd grown up with the character on the radio. At one point, when the invisible Baldwin was beating up on a terrified thug, he began a sentence with his Long Island hepcat "Didja think . . ."
I remember my father said incredulously "Didja? Didja?!" It took him right out of the movie, and we both viewed the rest with a heaping helping of skepticism. "The Shadow" was an interesting, if somewhat mechanical, attempt to work some of the same thematic and stylistic elements of "Batman" (1989) and "Dick Tracy" (1990) into another old pulp character event movie, but it missed the opportunity to explore what was special about . . . The Shadow, and didn't add up to much in the end.
Particularly puzzling was the bizarre morphing and elaborate makeup they put on Baldwin which made him look more like a cartoon version of his brother Billy than any kind of human. I'd always regarded the famous paintings of The Shadow from the magazine covers as an exaggerated, impressionistic idea of how he appeared, not a photorealistic portrait, and was disappointed that some overzealous technicians seemed to have gotten it so wrong.
I also found the rah-rah American patriotism present in Baldwin's use of language like "That's the U.S. of A. you're talkin' about there, pal . . ." to be so antithetical to what the character was supposed to be about. I hope Sam Raimi is a bigger fan of the original material than the team thrown together to create the elaborate 1994 misfire appeared to have been.
--Everyone except Jerry, of course, who valiantly tried to pick up the slack, as he always did.
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Preston: I've never actually had the album (despite the fact that I'm a huge Shadow buff - even wrote my undergrad thesis on the pulp novels and radio shows) but, if they used a recording of "The Shadow" opening taken from a Welles-era radio show, then, in fact, the speaker is actor Frank Readick, Jr., who was one of the actors who played The Shadow back when he was the host of the two Street and Smith anthology series that launched the character to stardom. Once I finally get this glorious album, I'll edit this post to confirm or deny this.
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A bit overpriced for a 2 disc set but its THE SHADOW BY JERRY GOLDSMITH!
And i never had the original album so i have ordered this immediately.
Thanks Intrada!
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Oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
Ordered. 
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