The Shadow Strikes is a 1937 black and white American film based on the story Ghost of the Manor written by Walter B. Gibson under the pen name Maxwell Grant.

The film was directed by Lynn Shores and stars Rod La Rocque[3] as Lamont Cranston, The Shadow.

[4] Lamont Granston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office.

Marcia discovers a pistol on Jasper's night stand, she and Humphrey phone "Randall" (Granston) at his private number and he agrees to come right over.

Jasper owes casino club owner, Barney Brossett, ten thousand dollars for gambling debts.

Jasper confronts Winstead and insists on an eleven thousand loan to pay off his gambling debts while holding the gun he finds in the desk drawer.