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Sadly Over-hyped

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

John Wayne in one of his early credited roles - Craig McCoy, a fancy flier. Dorothy Gulliver is "Jean", and her family is losing the circus if they don't come up with some cash fast. Wayne is the "Ace" who is determined to stop the "bad guys" from using and producing "the invention" stolen from the original "Eagle". Lots of unknowns here. It also seems to be a film made from a twelve episode series. The picture and sound quality are pretty rough. Much use of trick photography effects, to make it look like the plane was lighting the circus tents on fire, and even during the sky-writing itself. Skip this one. Stapled together from a serial series. Written and directed by Ford Beebe. Meh..... goes for 3 hours.

This serial film is fun to watch, if you can put yourself in the mind of a kid in 1932 chomping popcorn & watching this on the big screen in his local theater.The real value of the film to me is the scene in which an airplane attacks Wayne & his girlfriend as they stand on a deserted road. Compare it to the crop dusting scene in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" and there is little doubt in my mind that Hitch stole the scene from Beebe.

. . . of the director's cut for Erich Van Stroheim's GREED (which is the entire World Population alive Today), you'll swear that the 3 hours, 37 minutes of this "Mascot Serial" THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLE drags on for AT LEAST ten hours! SHADOW director Forde Beebe is so Hell-bent upon cramming every Bad Movie Cliché into SHADOW at least twice, you'll probably conclude that he's REALLY cousin Beebe Ford of THAT Ford Family. John Wayne drives home the SHADOW's message that corporate America is ALWAYS eager to short-change our heroic War Veterans (in this case, WWI pilot "Nate Gregory"). The Rich People Party gypped their winning team grunt soldiers who insured their ascendancy by triumphing in the War to End Lazy Southerners' Racist Slavery out of their full pensions. RPP President Hoover did worse, slaughtering a redacted number of WWI Vets seeking promised pensions, as well as their wives and kiddies ("Dead babies tell no tales," President Herb is said to have chuckled). Now the RPP's President-Elect Trump, who ducked service to America in Vietnam, plans to eliminate Veteran's Hospitals, throwing our current crop of Vets to the wolves. Who can save us? Now that John Wayne's gone over to the Dark Side, only the SHADOW knows.

Well what d'ya know? Just stumbled across this little caper which brings back happy memories of a childhood long long departed. The year was 1950 and I recall SHADOW OF THE EAGLE, the first time I ever clapped eyes on a very young up and coming John Wayne. (He had fully upped and comed by 1950!) Interestingly, this action-fest was considered somewhat of a "relic" even then!Shown as a weekly 20 minute serial at our local Saturday Morning Flicks...itself, the major regular event in our home town, I recall Wayne as square-jawed pilot Craig McCoy out to discover the truth behind the disappearance of a fairground owner whose livelihood had been threatened by the nefarious "Eagle." Each episode left a young boy barely able to wait for the following Saturday to catch Craig's latest revelations and discoveries in the dastardly plot. Actually, I can't ever recall the concluding episode.....maybe I had a sleepover the previous night? Maybe I'd finally cracked a date in her pedal-car with the five year old blonde tease next door, in which case poor old Duke was never a chance!