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The Secret of the Whistler

  • 1946
  • Approved
  • 1h 5min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,3/10
718
LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Leslie Brooks and Richard Dix in The Secret of the Whistler (1946)
Film noirDramma

Un artista sposato con una donna ricca e malata ha una relazione con una sua modella. La moglie la scopre e minaccia di escluderlo dal testamento. Per poter tenere sia i soldi che la ragazza... Leggi tuttoUn artista sposato con una donna ricca e malata ha una relazione con una sua modella. La moglie la scopre e minaccia di escluderlo dal testamento. Per poter tenere sia i soldi che la ragazza, inizia ad avvelenare sua moglie.Un artista sposato con una donna ricca e malata ha una relazione con una sua modella. La moglie la scopre e minaccia di escluderlo dal testamento. Per poter tenere sia i soldi che la ragazza, inizia ad avvelenare sua moglie.

  • Regia
    • George Sherman
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Richard H. Landau
    • Raymond L. Schrock
  • Star
    • Richard Dix
    • Leslie Brooks
    • Michael Duane
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,3/10
    718
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • George Sherman
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Richard H. Landau
      • Raymond L. Schrock
    • Star
      • Richard Dix
      • Leslie Brooks
      • Michael Duane
    • 23Recensioni degli utenti
    • 13Recensioni della critica
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    Richard Dix
    Richard Dix
    • Ralph Harrison
    Leslie Brooks
    Leslie Brooks
    • Kay Morrell
    Michael Duane
    Michael Duane
    • Jim Calhoun
    Mary Currier
    Mary Currier
    • Edith Marie Harrison
    Mona Barrie
    Mona Barrie
    • Linda Vail
    Ray Walker
    Ray Walker
    • Joseph Aloysius 'Joe' Conroy
    Claire Du Brey
    Claire Du Brey
    • Laura - Harrison's Servant
    Ernie Adams
    Ernie Adams
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    • Messenger Boy
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    Baynes Barron
    Baynes Barron
    • Artist
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    Jack Davis
    • Henry Loring
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Otto Forrest
    • Whistler
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    Byron Foulger
    Byron Foulger
    • Jorgensen
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    John Hamilton
    John Hamilton
    • McLaren aka Mac
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    Ernest Hilliard
    Ernest Hilliard
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    • Girl
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    Pat Lane
    • Detective Lieutenant
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    Nancy Saunders
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      • George Sherman
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Richard H. Landau
      • Raymond L. Schrock
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    8AlsExGal

    The irony of it all!

    This is, in my humble opinion, the best of the whistler series of films, and sadly, the next to the last one starring Richard Dix as the center of whatever dark tale "the whistler" is recounting for the audience. This one plays out like a 40's version of Night Gallery except without any of the supernatural elements usually involved in that 70's series and with an extra helping of irony.

    This is a tale about a mediocre middle aged artist, (Richard Dix as Ralph Harrison) married to a middle-aged wealthy wife (Mary Currier as Edith Harrison). The first scene sets us up for the macabre nature of the tale to come. A woman is ordering an expensive headstone - even in 1946 it will cost five thousand dollars . The stonemason is telling her it will take three months to build such an expensive monument. She says that is OK. Then she gives the name to be put on the headstone - her own. You see, Edith is quite ill with a bad heart and has only months to live and she knows it.

    Someone else here mentioned this as the tale of "the inconvenient wife", but it is not at all clear what Ralph's true feelings are for his wife, at least in the beginning. For sure he likes not having to sell sketches in the park, to be able to have his own studio and dabble even though he has no talent, and to entertain his "friends" who are actually just a bunch of parasitic hangers on. However, he seems genuinely troubled and saddened by the doctor's news that his wife has only weeks or months to live. His great misfortune is to befriend ace grifter Kay Morrell just to have someone to talk to during his time of trouble with his wife tied to a sick bed, and then he falls in love with her.

    Ralph decides he really wants Kay, Kay really only likes Ralph's money, and Ralph really likes his money too, and he loses that if he divorces Edith. Normally he could just wait out Edith's illness to its inevitable conclusion, but then a monkey wrench is thrown into his plans - a young hot-shot doctor devises a state of the art treatment plan and Edith now has a second lease on life. I'll let you watch for yourself and see how all of this plays out.

    This particular whistler entry is the essence of noir - an average man who is on an average man's path until something unexpected comes along, and suddenly that forbidden fruit just looks to good to pass up. Surely he can get away with a bite out of that fruit just once...or not.

    Like I said earlier, Dix did an outstanding job in this one. You never really know what his true feelings are deep in his heart, since he plays his cards close to his vest in his role as Ralph and he is fascinating to watch. Kudos also go out to Claire Du Brey who has her Mrs. Danvers like role down pat as the loyal servant of Edith, and also to Leslie Brooks as Kay Morrell who is beautiful and cold as ice as the femme fatale. A highly recommended little B noir.
    7whpratt1

    Good Whistler Mystery

    Always enjoy the wonderful performance that Richard Dix would present in this old time Radio favorite and his on the big screen appearance in the 1940's. In this film Dix plays the role of an artist (Ralph Harrison) who is married to a very rich woman Edith Marie Harrison,(Mary Currier) who has been very ill for many years and it puts a strain on their relationship. Ralph meets up with a blonde model, Kay Morrell, (Leslie Brooks) and he paints all kinds of pictures of Leslie. A relationship develops, however, Kay does not love Ralph and knows he is married, but she does wrap him around her little finger and manages to get all kinds of expensive jewelry and clothes. Mrs. Edith Harrison starts feeling well and visits her husband's studio and from that point on the story gets very interesting and creates a great mystery story. Enjoy a good B Classic film from 1946.
    9django-1

    excellent entry in "Whistler" mystery series

    This was the second to last film Richard Dix made in the Whistler series. The mysterious Whistler is seen as a shadow and heard in

    voice-over narration, but the "star" of the films is Richard Dix, who plays a different role in each--some heroic, some cowardly, some honorable, some not so honorable. This must have been satisfying to Dix, since it gave him regular work AND allowed him to show his talent in a wide variety of roles. This particular entry gives Dix a complex role, as an artist married to a rich woman whose financial support allows him to continue his work. The plot is more complex than the synopsis suggests, and there are a number of twists and turns throughout, giving the film the feel of an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The "femme fatale" in this film is played by Leslie Brooks, who took this kind of role even further in the great BLONDE ICE two years later. Director George Sherman did a lot of exciting films at Republic prior to this film at Columbia, including many entries in the Three Mesquiteers series, and went on to do many more films, including episodes of such classic TV shows as Rawhide and Naked City. The centerpiece of the film, though, is Richard Dix, an actor of great presence (it's fair to say that Gary Cooper was influenced by Dix)and subtlety. SECRET OF THE WHISTLER would be a good introduction to this series, and it should appeal to any fan of INNER SANCTUM, THRILLER, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS, etc. Most of the other films in the series are worth checking out also. Perhaps sometime in the future Columbia could do a DVD boxset of the Whistler films the way Universal is doing the Francis and Ma&Pa Kettle films? And after that, perhaps they could reissue the Boston Blackie films?
    Michael_Elliott

    One of the Best

    Secret of the Whistler, The (1946)

    *** (out of 4) T

    he sixth film in Columbia's series and the last to feature Richard Dix. In the film Dix plays an artist who begins dating a younger woman (Leslie Brooks) while waiting for his wife to die. After the wife dies he marries the younger woman but soon she starts to fear that he might have killed the first wife. This is another good entry in the series that manages to build some nice suspense with its very entertaining story and another fine performance by Dix. Not only is Dix very good in his role but the supporting cast is great as well. Brooks turns in a very good performance as the woman who begins to suspect the worst. Michael Duane and Mary Currier co-star as a newspaper man and Dix's first wife. The story goes by at a very fast pace and there's some nice twists and turns along the way. The film focuses on a psychological horror aspect, which is where the suspense comes from.
    6Handlinghandel

    One of the better entries in this fascinating series

    I was eager to see the "Whistler" movies because of William Castle's involvement in some. He was a fine director ion the forties. (He was OK later, too. But in the forties his films were very elegant and subtle. His later horror outings were anything but subtle.) This one is not directed by Castle but it works really well. It was near the end of Richard Dix's run in the series. He was not a great actor, at least not at this point. But he had a very solid presence. And he is plausible as good guys and not so hot ones as well.

    Here he plays a less than admirable character. He is a painter. Amazingly, the painting of his that we first see is pretty decent. So often, even in the toniest of A-pictures, paintings by supposedly great artists looked like the work of quick-sketch artists or Sunday painters.

    The film opens with a stylishly noirish woman buying her own tombstone. Everything bout this film has the marvelous dark look of a film noir. Or of an Edward Hopper paintings. The scenes look especially like book jackets from the time.

    And the female lead looks right off the cover of some true-crime book. Wow, she looks both right and beautiful! And she -- Leslie Brooks -- is a fine actress too. (Intriguingly, she looks like the same studio's biggest star ten years hence: Kim Novak.)

    The whole series is entertaining, even the final film, which does not have Dix in it.

    One problem I encountered and others may as well: Clearly the movies were based on a radio program of their time. I have never heard that program, though. I get the idea that the Whistler is an omniscient criminologist who either has no bodily image or, like Lamont Cranston of "The Shadow," can make himself invisible.

    Guess I will try to track some tapes of the series down. In the meantime, do yourself a favor and search out these films. They're all good. A couple, like this one, are very good.

    Trama

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      This is the penultimate film of Richard Dix, being 99th out of the 100 he made.
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      After Harrison's servant discovers Mrs Harrison lying on the floor, using the bedroom phone tells Loring she hangs up and then calls the doctor. But, the phone downstairs that she originally answered when Loring called is still off the hook and therefore she would not be able to make the call.
    • Citazioni

      Ralph Harrison: What's the matter, Darling?

      Edith Marie Harrison: Stop acting, Ralph. There's nothing quite so contemptible as a hypocrite.

    • Connessioni
      Followed by The Thirteenth Hour (1947)
    • Colonne sonore
      Put The Blame On Mame
      Written by Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher

      Played during the party in Ralph's studio

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    • Data di uscita
      • 7 novembre 1946 (Stati Uniti)
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      • Stati Uniti
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    • Colore
      • Black and White
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