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The Mark of the Whistler

  • 1944
  • Approved
  • 1h 2min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,5/10
526
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Paul Guilfoyle, John Calvert, Janis Carter, Richard Dix, and Porter Hall in The Mark of the Whistler (1944)
AvventuraCrimineDrammaFilm noir

Un vagabondo rivendica i soldi in un vecchio conto bancario impersonando qualcun altro con lo stesso nome.Un vagabondo rivendica i soldi in un vecchio conto bancario impersonando qualcun altro con lo stesso nome.Un vagabondo rivendica i soldi in un vecchio conto bancario impersonando qualcun altro con lo stesso nome.

  • Regia
    • William Castle
  • Sceneggiatura
    • George Bricker
    • Cornell Woolrich
  • Star
    • Richard Dix
    • Janis Carter
    • Porter Hall
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,5/10
    526
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • William Castle
    • Sceneggiatura
      • George Bricker
      • Cornell Woolrich
    • Star
      • Richard Dix
      • Janis Carter
      • Porter Hall
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    • 14Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali24

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    Richard Dix
    Richard Dix
    • Lee Selfridge Nugent
    Janis Carter
    Janis Carter
    • Patricia Henley
    Porter Hall
    Porter Hall
    • Joe Sorsby
    Paul Guilfoyle
    Paul Guilfoyle
    • 'Limpy' Smith
    John Calvert
    John Calvert
    • Eddie Donnelly
    Matt Willis
    Matt Willis
    • Perry Donnelly
    Frank Baker
    Frank Baker
    • Club Patron
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Walter Baldwin
    Walter Baldwin
    • Fireman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Willie Best
    Willie Best
    • Men's Room Attendant
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Edward Biby
    Edward Biby
    • Club Patron
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Edgar Dearing
    Edgar Dearing
    • Bank Guard
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    George Ford
    George Ford
    • Clerk
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Otto Forrest
    • The Whistler
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Howard Freeman
    Howard Freeman
    • M.K. Simmons
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Edna Holland
    Edna Holland
    • Childrens Aid Society Woman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Eddie Kane
    Eddie Kane
    • Haberdasher at Edwards
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Donald Kerr
    • Newspaper Photographer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Matt McHugh
    Matt McHugh
    • Tom, Reporter
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
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      • William Castle
    • Sceneggiatura
      • George Bricker
      • Cornell Woolrich
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    6MovieStakes

    It pays at the end!

    The mark of the whistler 1944

    Film noir, by definition, deals with crime and that too in a stylised way. These films galore in Hollywood in the 40s to 60s period. One such film is this.

    The story is narrated by an incognito narrator (the whistler) and is about a stone broke man who gets into the hotseat due to his greed for easy money. The storyline is simple, characters are very few and the filming is seamless. The suspense is kept intact, though it isn't a 'whodunit'. The protagonist gets his share for his part on the day of reckoning and there is one major suprise in the end too. Roughly an hour long, this drama is worth watching and you wouldn't regret it.
    8AlsExGal

    Oh the irony!

    Lee Selfridge Nugent (Richard Dix) is introduced as someone who once had power and wealth, but has lost that over time, and due to bad health cannot hold a job and has become a homeless hobo. He looks at a newspaper left on a park bench and sees an ad for unclaimed money at a local bank. The accounts are all said to be over a hundred dollars (about 2000 dollars in 2021 money), and one of the people who has a dormant account left it in trust for her son, who is also named Lee Nugent.

    So Lee does some reconnaissance and gets enough backstory on Lee Nugent that he feels he can impersonate him and get his mother's money. But nobody seems to know what happened to the actual Lee Nugent past fifteen years of age. Lee does pull it off. A brief investigation by the bank and the money is his. But it is thirty thousand dollars not just one hundred. In 2021 that would be about 600K.

    But Lee's conscience bugs him because he KNOWS the money is not his. Before he gets the money he thinks every cop or guard who stares at him must know about his fraud. But after he gets the money he is a bit too confident. And then he starts noticing strangers staring at him who are not cops or guards. Is he imagining things, or are they wanting to rob him, or is it something more? Watch and find out.

    Well directed by William Castle, the camera gets good close ups of the people involved, detracting from the somewhat cheap sets that poverty row Columbia could afford, and allowing the viewer to feel the claustrophobia that Lee is feeling.

    This Whistler entry has some great plot twists, as do most of them. Plus The Whistler himself narrates more of the story than he does in later entries. I'd highly recommend this one.
    8Spondonman

    What's in a name?

    This was the second of the eight self-contained Whistler films starring Richard Dix, still playing a goodie but this time with more bad in him. Also after the first my second favourite entry in the series.

    Lee Nugent – mark that name – is a human derelict who hits upon the idea of impersonating a man whose bank is advertising for him to appear and claim his dormant bank account. He doesn't initially know how much money is involved but when he does get it he gives Porter Hall a fair price for the loan of his suits … Things start to get complicated when he bumps into Limpy the match seller and a determined newspaper reporter played by Janis Carter – just before she played a determined newspaper reporter in One Mysterious Night! Favourite bits: Signing his name but blotting his middle initial in the bank; Some of the sinister scenes with John Calvert chasing after Dix. The overall moral is Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide, with Dix you can believe it too. With one twist after another the last one is a little twee but still effective.

    No cgi cartoonery, swearing, sex or violence, just b&w and an intricate story well acted make for a very pleasant hour.
    6russjones-80887

    Banking on a fraud

    A drifter claims money held in an old bank account for a namesake of his. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who was sent to prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.

    The second in the low budget Whistler series from Columbia but, at just under an hour's running time, this is a surprisingly watchable film. The storyline flows and there are several twists along the way. Stars Richard Dix.
    7goblinhairedguy

    William Castle meets Dostoyevsky

    This entry is the best in this above-average series from Columbia. All the stories had intriguing premises and clever twists, but this one even more so, since it was based on an original by Cornell Woolrich, that master of gloom, fate and paranoia. You definitely won't see the last curveball coming. There's a nice element of "Crime and Punishment"-like guilt infiltrating the protagonist's shady exploits, although it's not directly responsible for his downfall. The material is the essence of noir, but Castle filmed it straightforwardly for the most part. In his early days before churning out his gimmicky horror pics, he knew how to add telling little touches and include fascinatingly offbeat characters on the margins. All the same, one can't help thinking that this might have been a low-budget noir masterpiece along the lines of "Blind Spot" or "Fear in the Night" if the style had been more doom-laden and shadowy.

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      Followed by L'asso di picche (1945)

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    • Data di uscita
      • 9 ottobre 1944 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Azienda produttrice
      • Larry Darmour Productions
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      1 ora 2 minuti
    • Colore
      • Black and White
    • Proporzioni
      • 1.37 : 1

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