The Power of the Whistler (1945)
1945 · Feature film · 66 min · dir. Lew Landers
Radio’s mystery man will hold you spellbound!
- film noir
- Mystery
Synopsis
The Power of the Whistler is a 1945 film noir thriller film based on the radio drama The Whistler. Directed by Lew Landers, the production features Richard Dix. It is the third of Columbia Pictures' eight "Whistler" films produced in the 1940s, seven starring Dix.
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Lew Landers
- Writer
- Aubrey Wisberg
- Composer
- Paul Sawtell
- Cinematography
- L. William O'Connell
- Studio
- Larry Darmour Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 1945-04-19
- Series
- The Whistler Collection
- Running time
- 66 minutes
Cast & crew
Lew Landers Director
Richard Dix
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Cautionary rainy day fare · ReelFan · 2024-07-15
Looking beyond the dried-up-old-man sexism of the era/genre, not a terrible flick. It is quirky, definite room for improvement in the aspect of building suspense. Set in a time of trust in humanity, when social decency and a measure of dignity toward all was a societal high priority. The antagonist psychopathically preys on valid societal expectation to draw the protagonist into danger. The caution? Trust judiciously, no matter what anyone tries to sell you.
★★ · Salad of The Twilight Zone and Highway Patrol. · 1fs · 2020-06-04
The Power of the Whistler, 1945, directed by Lew Landers. One of a series of one hour films spun off from the radio series. In this case we have a salad of The Twilight Zone and Highway Patrol. This perfect print is yet one more story based on the amnesia premise – a cliché of this era. It starts with a man getting grazed while walking right into a passing car. He doesn’t know who he is. In a restaurant a girl sees him across the room from the where she and her sister and sister’s fiancé are having dinner and playing gin rummy. With that deck she tells the fortune of this older man she thinks…
