title: The Shadow (1954 film)
text: # The Shadow (1954 film)
  
  The Shadow (Italian: L'ombra) is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Giorgio Bianchi and starring Märta Torén and Pierre Cressoy.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Lamont Cranston, a psychiatrist on retainer to the police department, is asked to assist in the Case of the Cotton Kimono murder investigation. Lamont and his girlfriend Margot Lane are not satisfied with Detective Harris' analysis and call on the two prime suspects: the victim's voice instructor and her boyfriend. When Harris, convinced that the boyfriend is guilty, frames the young man for the crime, Lamont is forced to assume his secret identity as "The Shadow", and cloaked by his power of invisibility, seeks to force the true killer to reveal himself.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Märta Torén as Alberta
  * Pierre Cressoy as Gerardo
  * Gianna Maria Canale as Elena
  * Filippo Scelzo as Dr. Magre
  * Paolo Stoppa as Michele
  * Emma Baron as Luisa
  * Renato Navarrini
  