The Whistler

Mar 30, 1944

1h 0m

★ 6.1

Radio's Master of Mystery... Now on the Screen!

Overview

A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.

Genres

Thriller

Mystery

Production Companies

Larry Darmour Productions

Columbia Pictures

The Whistler Trailers

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Cast

Earl C. Conrad

Richard Dix

Alice Walker

Gloria Stuart

The Killer

J. Carrol Naish

Gorman

Alan Dinehart

The Bum in the Next Bed (Uncredited)

Trevor Bardette

The Deafmute (Uncredited)

William Benedict

Jennings, Butler (Uncredited)

Charles Coleman

Telephone Repairman (Uncredited)

Clancy Cooper

Lefty Vigran aka Gorss (Uncredited)

Don Costello

Cop at Car Accident (Uncredited)

Ralph Dunn

The Whistler (Uncredited)

Otto Forrest

Flophouse Desk Clerk (Uncredited)

Byron Foulger

Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.

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