 The cinematography mimicked that of Karl Freund in Universal's "Dracula" - for example, using close ups of the actors' eyes - in order to take advantage of Bela Lugosi's fame as the star of that film.The shadow of The Shadow is not real; It was drawn in later by animators.Harmon and Glut comment on that "If Street & Smith, owners of the original [The] Shadow of magazine and radio fame, had found out about the owner of the whisper, they might have sued."