Jonathan Winters credited as playing...
Police Commissioner Wainwright Barth
- Lamont Cranston: [sees Barth reading a note] What's the matter? Cops and robbers business slowing down?
- Barth: Mm-mm. It's a report of that damn Shadow character again.
- Lamont Cranston: I thought you said he was only a rumor.
- Barth: I'm sick of this Shadow business. His meddling in police affairs. This time tomorrow, I'll put a task force on him.
- Lamont Cranston: [using mind control on Barth] You're not going to appoint a task force.
- Barth: No. The hell with it. I'm not going to appoint a task force.
- Lamont Cranston: You're not going to pay any attention to these reports of the Shadow.
- Barth: Ignore them entirely.
- Lamont Cranston: There is no Shadow.
- Barth: No, there is no Shadow. If there were, I'd be Eleanor Roosevelt.