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Director
  
George Sherman

Film series
  
The Whistler Film Series

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.4/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Crime, Drama

Music director
  
Herschel Burke Gilbert

Country
  
United States

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Release date
  
November 7, 1946 (1946-11-07) (United States)

Based on
  
The Whistler 1942-85 radio series  by J. Donald Wilson

Writer
  
Richard H. Landau (original screenplay), Raymond L. Schrock (original screenplay)

Cast
  
Richard Dix
(Ralph Harrison),
Leslie Brooks
(Kay Morrell),
Michael Duane
(Jim Calhoun),
Mary Currier
(Edith Marie Harrison),
Mona Barrie
(Linda Vail),
Ray Walker
(Joseph Aloysius 'Joe' Conroy)

Similar movies
  
Mysterious Intruder
,
The Power of the Whistler
,
The Thirteenth Hour
,
Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation
,
The Glass Alibi
,
The Return of the Whistler

The Secret of the Whistler is a 1946 American mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler. Directed by George Sherman, the production features Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks and Michael Duane. It is the sixth of Columbia Pictures' eight "Whistler" films produced in the 1940s, all but the last starring Dix.

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Plot

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Ralph Harrison (Richard Dix) is married to Edith (Mary Currier), a rich woman who has been suffering heart attacks. Upset by her condition, he finds consoling companionship with an artist’s model, the unscrupulous gold-digger Kay (Leslie Brooks).

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He falls in love with Kay. Edith's health then improves. Edith overhears Ralph professing his love for Kay. Edith threatens Ralph, saying she’s going to take him out of her will. He decides to poison her, with her own medicine, before she can meet with her lawyers.

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After Edith dies, Ralph marries Kay, who becomes suspicious of how Edith died and worried for her own fate. Finding incriminating diary pages and the medicine, she has the medicine analyzed, discovering that it was poisoned.

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Ralph overhears the phone conversation with the lab. Pretending to embrace her, he strangles Kay to death, just as the police arrive and arrest him for murder — a murder he didn’t need to commit because Edith hadn’t taken the poisoned medicine after all, but died of a heart attack, before she could take it.

Cast

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  • Richard Dix as Ralph Harrison
  • Leslie Brooks as Kay Morrell
  • Michael Duane as Artist Jim Calhoun
  • Mary Currier as Edith Marie Harrison
  • Mona Barrie as Linda Vail
  • Ray Walker as Joseph Aloysius 'Joe' Conroy
  • Claire Du Brey as Laura - Harrison's Servant
  • Otto Forrest as The Whistler
  • Reception

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    TV Guide rated it 3/5 stars and called it "engrossing as usual and well acted".

    References

    The Secret of the Whistler Wikipedia
    The Secret of the Whistler IMDb The Secret of the Whistler themoviedb.org