The Secret of the Whistler
- Richard H. Landau
- Raymond L. Schrock
1942-55 radio series
by J. Donald Wilson
- Richard Dix
- Leslie Brooks
- Michael Duane
company
- November 7, 1946 (1946-11-07) (United States)
The Secret of the Whistler is a 1946 American mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler. Directed by George Sherman, the production features Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks and Michael Duane.[1] It is the sixth of Columbia Pictures' eight "Whistler" films produced in the 1940s, all but the last starring Dix.
Plot
Ralph Harrison (Richard Dix) is married to Edith (Mary Currier), a rich woman who has been suffering heart attacks. Upset by her condition, he finds consoling companionship with an artist's model, the unscrupulous gold-digger Kay (Leslie Brooks).
He falls in love with Kay. Edith's health then improves. Edith overhears Ralph professing his love for Kay. Edith threatens Ralph, saying she's going to take him out of her will. He decides to poison her, with her own medicine, before she can meet with her lawyers.
After Edith dies, Ralph marries Kay, who becomes suspicious of how Edith died and worried for her own fate. Finding incriminating diary pages and the medicine, she has the medicine analyzed, discovering that it was poisoned.
Ralph overhears Kay's phone conversation with the lab. Pretending to embrace her, he strangles her to death, just as the police arrive and arrest him for murder - but not for the murder of Edith, because she had not taken the poisoned medicine but died of a heart attack.
Cast
- Richard Dix as Ralph Harrison
- Leslie Brooks as Kay Morrell
- Michael Duane as Artist Jim Calhoun
- Mary Currier as Edith Marie Harrison
- Mona Barrie as Linda Vail
- Ray Walker as Joseph Aloysius 'Joe' Conroy
- Claire Du Brey as Laura - Harrison's Servant
- Otto Forrest as The Whistler
Reception
TV Guide rated it 3/5 stars and called it "engrossing as usual and well acted".[2]
References
External links
- The Secret of the Whistler at IMDb
- The Secret of the Whistler at AllMovie
- The Secret of the Whistler at the TCM Movie Database
- The Secret of the Whistler at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- v
- t
- e
- Wild Horse Rodeo (1937)
- The Purple Vigilantes (1938)
- Outlaws of Sonora (1938)
- Riders of the Black Hills (1938)
- Heroes of the Hills (1938)
- Pals of the Saddle (1938)
- Overland Stage Raiders (1938)
- Rhythm of the Saddle (1938)
- Santa Fe Stampede (1938)
- Red River Range (1938)
- Mexicali Rose (1939)
- The Night Riders (1939)
- Three Texas Steers (1939)
- Wyoming Outlaw (1939)
- Colorado Sunset (1939)
- New Frontier (1939)
- The Kansas Terrors (1939)
- Rovin' Tumbleweeds (1939)
- Cowboys from Texas (1939)
- South of the Border (1939)
- Ghost Valley Raiders (1940)
- Covered Wagon Days (1940)
- Rocky Mountain Rangers (1940)
- One Man's Law (1940)
- The Tulsa Kid (1940)
- Under Texas Skies (1940)
- Frontier Vengeance (1940)
- The Trail Blazers (1940)
- Texas Terrors (1940)
- Lone Star Raiders (1940)
- Wyoming Wildcat (1941)
- The Phantom Cowboy (1941)
- Two Gun Sheriff (1941)
- Desert Bandit (1941)
- Kansas Cyclone (1941)
- Citadel of Crime (1941)
- The Apache Kid (1941)
- Death Valley Outlaws (1941)
- A Missouri Outlaw (1941)
- Arizona Terrors (1942)
- Stagecoach Express (1942)
- Jesse James, Jr. (1942)
- The Cyclone Kid (1942)
- The Sombrero Kid (1942)
- X Marks the Spot (1942)
- London Blackout Murders (1943)
- The Mantrap (1943)
- False Faces (1943)
- The West Side Kid (1943)
- A Scream in the Dark (1943)
- Mystery Broadcast (1943)
- The Lady and the Monster (1944)
- Storm Over Lisbon (1944)
- The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)
- Renegades (1946)
- The Gentleman Misbehaves (1946)
- Talk About a Lady (1946)
- The Bandit of Sherwood Forest (1946)
- The Secret of the Whistler (1946)
- Personality Kid (1946)
- Last of the Redskins (1947)
- Relentless (1948)
- Black Bart (1948)
- River Lady (1948)
- Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948)
- Larceny (1948)
- Red Canyon (1949)
- Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949)
- Sword in the Desert (1949)
- Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
- Comanche Territory (1950)
- The Sleeping City (1950)
- Spy Hunt (1950)
- Tomahawk (1951)
- The Golden Horde (1951)
- The Raging Tide (1951)
- Steel Town (1952)
- The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)
- Back at the Front (1952)
- Against All Flags (1952)
- The Lone Hand (1953)
- The Veils of Bagdad (1953)
- War Arrow (1953)
- Border River (1954)
- Johnny Dark (1954)
- Dawn at Socorro (1954)
- Chief Crazy Horse (1955)
- Count Three and Pray (1955)
- The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
- Reprisal! (1956)
- Comanche (1956)
- The Last of the Fast Guns (1958)
- Ten Days to Tulara (1958)
- The Son of Robin Hood (1959)
- Hell Bent for Leather (1960)
- The Enemy General (1960)
- None but the Brave (1960)
- The Wizard of Baghdad (1960)
- The Fiercest Heart (1961)
- Panic Button (1964)
- Smoky (1966)
- Big Jake (1971)