"How does a person go about making friends?"

Watchable, but where is the ironic twist?!

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Gloria Stuart, Alan Dinehart, Richard Dix, and J. Carrol Naish in The Whistler (1944)

Paul Guilfoyle, John Calvert, Janis Carter, Richard Dix, and Porter Hall in The Mark of the Whistler (1944)

Richard Dix, Bernadene Hayes, John Kellogg, and Karen Morley in The Thirteenth Hour (1947)

Lenore Aubert and Michael Duane in The Return of the Whistler (1948)

Herbert Marshall, Joel McCrea, and Gail Russell in The Unseen (1945)

Theresa Harris, Jack Holt, and Fay Wray in Black Moon (1934)

Virginia Grey, Danny Morton, Milburn Stone, and Kent Taylor in Smooth as Silk (1946)

Peter Lorre and Rochelle Hudson in Island of Doomed Men (1940)

John Baragrey, Patricia Knight, and Cornel Wilde in Shockproof (1949)

James Cardwell, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Frank Reicher, and Rhys Williams in Voice of the Whistler (1945)

James Cardwell and Richard Dix in Voice of the Whistler (1945)

Richard Dix and Frank Reicher in Voice of the Whistler (1945)

Richard Dix in Voice of the Whistler (1945)

James Cardwell in Voice of the Whistler (1945)

Lynn Merrick in Voice of the Whistler (1945)

Richard Dix and Clinton Rosemond in Voice of the Whistler (1945)

Richard Dix

Lynn Merrick

Rhys Williams

Wilfrid H. Pettitt

William Castle

Allan Radar

The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, &quot;The Whistler&quot;, finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long vacation. Heading for the Great Lakes, he becom...

Voice of the Whistler

Best &quot;Whistler&quot; I&apos;ve Seen So Far

A truly great &quot;B&quot; and the best &quot;Whistler&quot; series film I&apos;ve seen so far. It&apos;s true that the plot doesn&apos;t make much sense, but there&apos;s a marvelously surrealistic quality about the exercise and Richard Dix&apos;s performance is one of the most haunting of his career, harking back to his great epics of the 1930&apos;s (&quot;Cimarron,&quot; &quot;The Conquerors&quot; and &quot;Reno&quot;). William Castle&apos;s direction shows his marvelous command of atmosphere  he really was a first-rate suspense director when he wasn&apos;t throwing things at the audience or giving them electric shocks  and also is distinctly influenced by Orson Welles even before they worked together on &quot;The Lady from Shanghai,&quot; especially in the fake newsreel used to introduce Dix&apos;s character and his backstory and the long scenes of the semi-retired tycoon and his blonde trophy wife living a joyless existence in a remote residence. Lynn Merrick is superb as a morally ambiguous character, and though James Cardwell is weak, Rhys Williams is a far better than average comic-relief sidekick even though his sudden appearance makes it seem at first as if that train took Dix not to Chicago but to London via the transatlantic tunnel Dix was constructing in the film of that name. &quot;Voice of the Whistler&quot; is an especially good entry in a series that on the whole maintained a high level of quality and holds up better than the rather dated, tricky &quot;Whistler&quot; radio shows. Please, Sony, follow the example of Universai&apos;s release of the &quot;Inner Sanctum&quot; films and put out all eight &quot;Whistler&quot; movies as a DVD boxed set!

A truly great "B" and the best "Whistler" series film I've seen so far. It's true that the plot doesn't make much sense, but there's a marvelously surrealistic quality about the exercise and Richard Dix's performance is one of the most haunting of his career, harking back to his great epics of the 1930's ("Cimarron," "The Conquerors" and "Reno"). William Castle's direction shows his marvelous command of atmosphere  he really was a first-rate suspense director when he wasn't throwing things at the audience or giving them electric shocks  and also is distinctly influenced by Orson Welles even before they worked together on "The Lady from Shanghai," especially in the fake newsreel used to introduce Dix's character and his backstory and the long scenes of the semi-retired tycoon and his blonde trophy wife living a joyless existence in a remote residence. Lynn Merrick is superb as a morally ambiguous character, and though James Cardwell is weak, Rhys Williams is a far better than average comic-relief sidekick even though his sudden appearance makes it seem at first as if that train took Dix not to Chicago but to London via the transatlantic tunnel Dix was constructing in the film of that name. "Voice of the Whistler" is an especially good entry in a series that on the whole maintained a high level of quality and holds up better than the rather dated, tricky "Whistler" radio shows. Please, Sony, follow the example of Universai's release of the "Inner Sanctum" films and put out all eight "Whistler" movies as a DVD boxed set!

The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long vacation. Heading for the Great Lakes, he becomes ill in the cab operated by Ernie Sparrow an is taken to a clinic where he meets nurse Joan Martin, who is engaged to intern Fred Graham. Doctors now tell him he has only a few months to live and advise him to go to Maine (where, evidently, it will seem longer.) He asks Joan to marry him, promising to leave her his fortune. She, no dummy, accepts but hard-loser Fred doesn't like it even though she says she is doing it for him. After six months of living in a lighthouse with only Joan and Sparrow, whom he has hired as his aide, Sinclaie seemingly regains his health and has really fallen in love with Joan. She tells him she can no longer tolerate the loneliness just as Fred arrives for a visit, and John invites him to stay. In a chess game, John facetiously outlines to Fred how he would murder him if he chose to. Fred, decides to beat him to the punch and enters his bedroom that night and attempts to kill John with a poker. The figure in the bed turns out to be a dummy and John, who has been hiding, clubs Fred to death. He tries to throw the body from the bedroom window but it won't open and, planning to return and force it open later, he carries the body to the rocks and then hits Fred's head with a stone. Returning to the lighthouse, John meets Sparrow and tells him that Fred fell from a window but Sparrow knows all the windows have been nailed shut. And Joan, who saw John carry the body out, has summoned the police.

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