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The Secret of the Whistler

  • 1946
  • Approved
  • 1h 5min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,3/10
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LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
Leslie Brooks and Richard Dix in The Secret of the Whistler (1946)
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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
    720
    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
    • George
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    Fred Amsel
    • Messenger Boy
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    Baynes Barron
    Baynes Barron
    • Artist
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    Jack Davis
    • Henry Loring
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    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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    Doris Houck
    • 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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    dougdoepke

    An Inconvenient Wife

    Lesser entry in the offbeat Whistler series. The story is worthy enough. Richard Dix plays an "artist' and kept man who takes a fancy to a shapely blonde model while his wealthy wife is stricken with a serious heart problem. The intrigue goes on from there. The problem is that the screenplay is filmed in straightforward fashion, with none of the moody atmospherics that distinguish other entries. The result is an entertaining 60 minutes, but minus the usual visual panache. Apparently, journeyman director George Sherman wasn't advised of the proper lighting or feel of the series. Either that or the producers were seeking a stylistic departure.

    Nonetheless, the story keeps us watching. As usual we can't be sure how events will turn out since Dix's character is as morally compromised as in the other entries. Unlike other Hollywood films of that era, there is no one to root for as the plot unfolds. Thus, it's the story itself that holds our interest, and not the more predictable question of how a hero will triumph. Fortunately, the ending comes up with the usual fine touch of irony that fans expect.

    There's an expertly shaded performance by Mary Currier as Dix's star-crossed wife. Watch the subtlety of her expressions as she learns about her wayward husband. The series itself did not depend on subtle acting-- and certainly Dix doesn't manage the Lothario role very well. Nonetheless, Currier delivers an A-grade performance. (In passing-- I expected the screenplay to develop the scheming relationship between blonde model Kay and her effete boyfriend Jim more fully than it did. That could have set up an interesting dynamic of those schemers competing against another schemer, Dix.) Anyway, stylish or not, this remains a very watchable hour of frustrated passion and the hand of fate.
    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.
    6blanche-2

    A man wants to help his wife to an early grave

    Secret of the Whistler is a rather good entry into the series. The print I saw was beautiful, and I loved the different, classy sets.

    Again the Whistler just walks around as Narrator. He doesn't get involved in the plot.

    The series stars Richard Dix. Here he plays Ralph Harrison, a not great artist who lives off his sick wife's (Mary Currier) money. In the beginning of the film, we see her ordering her own gravestone!

    Edith Harrison has a terminal heart condition. When her husband meets model Kay Morrell (the very pretty Leslie Brooks), he falls in love with her. However, a new doctor has gotten Edith out of her sickbed and ready to live again.

    Edith goes to her husband's studio to surprise him. She's the one surprised as she overhears him declaring his love for Kay and saying Edith will be gone soon. In fact, he decides to help her along.

    Richard Dix is an actor I have a hard time with. I find his acting not good, along with his hairpiece, and he's quite rigid. Sometimes he's a good guy in the Whistler series; here he's a bad one. There's a twist at the end.

    This is the best Whistler I've seen.
    8audiemurph

    Richard Dix, gaunt and demented: fantastic

    In this, the penultimate Whistler movie, Richard Dix, aging and hulking, is simply deliciously evil. Though acting with seeming sweetness and kindness to those around him, Dix's eyes give it all away: hideous, subtly maniacal eyes, eyes in which we can see the selfish egotistical dementia of a man who has apparently spent a lifetime manipulating and using every person unfortunate enough to cross his path. A great job by Dix, and I hope he had fun with this role.

    Otherwise, as is usual in the Whistler fliks, the supporting actors are adequate, and the dialogue slightly corny and dated, but with a time of barely over an hour, the pace is quick and satisfying.

    A very interesting directorial decision: three years before this movie was made (that is, 1943) the great western, The Ox-bow Incident, was released. In the famous last scene, Henry Fonda reads aloud the last letter written by the lynched Dana Andrews. Fonda's eyes, and eyes alone, are not visible, hidden behind the brim of Henry Morgan's hat, while we see his mouth move. A very effective idea.

    Well, here, in The Secret of the Whistler, the director uses the exact same idea: in a late scene, Richard Dix's wife makes a startling confession, her eyes hidden by an intruding lamp shade, but her mouth visible as she speaks, with Dix looking on behind her. Again, interesting.

    Lastly, look for Dix's wife walking around with about a half-dozen dead minks or stoles or whatever they are, complete with heads, draped across her left shoulder. I don't why this struck me as funny, but, in its gratuitous pointlessness, it did.

    Definitely a fun way to spend 65 minutes.
    7Spondonman

    Will The Secret ever come out?

    I always thought Richard Dix was at his best in this series of films. The sense of mystery, menace, or goodness he could generate by turns makes his Whistler films (this was number 6 out of 7) well worth watching, although he could sometimes give the impression of a chunky silent actor getting to grips with talkies.

    In this outing he plays a man married to a woman purely for her money and who falls in love with a younger woman who is after him purely for his (her) money. How the situation is nefariously resolved is the plot, simply and carefully plotted. The way the actors spoke their words beginning with capital letters in this - and other entries in the series - makes me think this must have been adapted and expanded from one of the scripts of the 231 radio plays already aired by then. Whether playing a goodie, baddie or bothie Dix exuded a simple yet intense sincerity, he's basically a baddie with all the usual human failings in here and yet you can still find yourself rooting for the poor mutt. Leslie Brooks as the not-too-bad gold-digger artists model was never more alluring, I was definitely rooting for her! There's a poignant twist at the end, so attention is recommended.

    Sadly neglected, about time they were all available on DVD, a nice entry in a nice series for those of us who like the genre.

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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)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
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      • Inglese
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      • Larry Darmour Productions
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      • 1h 5min(65 min)
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      • Black and White
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