Been meaning to watch Karloff's Mummy and the original Frankenstein films for a long time --- listening to the 1936 radio-series on The Shadow and honestly, it really had a quality that's unlike anything we got today!
Regarding the Alec Baldwin movie -- does that remind you of Batman Begins in any way? Poppy-fields, Oriental cult-leaders espousing vigilantism with the word "shadow," a moniker that goes with invisibility... I dunno, it seemed so much like a Ra's Al Ghul movie to me seeing as how Batman was originally inspired by the character.