The Mark of the Whistler
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| Directed by | William Castle |
| Produced by | Rudolph C. Flothow |
| Written by | Story: Cornell Woolrich Screenplay: George Bricker |
| Music by | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco |
| Cinematography | George Meehan |
| Editing by | Reg Browne |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 9, 1944 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Mark of the Whistler is a 1944 American crime film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler. It was directed by William Castle and features Richard Dix and Janis Carter, among others. It is the second of eight Whistler films starring Richard Dix produced in the 1940s.[1]
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[edit] Synopsis
A drifter claims the money in a dormant bank account. Later, he becomes the target of men who are the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison due to a conflict with him over the money.
[edit] Cast
- Richard Dix as Lee Selfridge Nugent
- Janis Carter as Patricia Henley
- Porter Hall as Joe Sorsby
- Paul Guilfoyle as 'Limpy' Smith
- John Calvert as Eddie Donnelly
- Matt Willis as Perry Donnelly
[edit] Reception
Bosley Crowther, the film critic for the New York Times, gave the film a mixed review, writing "The dodges by which a fellow successfully stakes a phony claim to a dormant account in a savings bank and swindles $29,000 lend some fair to middling interest to Columbia's latest Whistler-series film—one called The Mark of the Whistler...In this dubious demonstration, the film does present a criminal case with the patient documentation familiar in crime-and-punishment shorts. But the things that happen to this defrauder after he has got the cash are just the claptrap of cheap melodrama—and they are bluntly presented that way."[2]
[edit] References
- ^ The Mark of the Whistler at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Crowther, Bosley (November 11, 1944). "The New York Times film review". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=2&res=9E0DEEDB1E31E03BBC4952DFB767838F659EDE. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
[edit] External links
- The Mark of the Whistler at the Internet Movie Database
- The Mark of the Whistler at AllRovi
- The Mark of the Whistler at the TCM Movie Database
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