Das Zeichen des Whistler
1944The Mark of the Whistler, (aka The Marked Man) is a 1944 American mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler.[1] Directed by William Castle, the production features Richard Dix, Porter Hall and Janis Carter.[2] It is the second of Columbia Pictures' eight "Whistler" films produced in the 1940s, all but the last starring Dix.[3]
A drifter claims the money in a dormant bank account. Later, he becomes the target of men who are the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison due to a conflict with him over the money.
Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, gave the film a mixed review, writing "The dodges by which a fellow successfully stakes a phony claim to a dormant account in a savings bank and swindles $29,000 lend some fair to middling interest to Columbia's latest Whistler-series film—one called The Mark of the Whistler...In this dubious demonstration, the film does present a criminal case with the patient documentation familiar in crime-and-punishment shorts. But the things that happen to this defrauder after he has got the cash are just the claptrap of cheap melodrama—and they are bluntly presented that way."[4]
Kinostart: | 1944 | ||||||||||
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Genre: | Mysteryfilm, Film noir | ||||||||||
Herstellungsland: | Vereinigte Staaten | ||||||||||
Originalsprache: | Englisch | ||||||||||
Farbe: | Schwarzweiß | ||||||||||
IMDB: | 340 | ||||||||||
Verleih: | Columbia Pictures |
Regie: | William Castle | |
Musik: | Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco | |
Produzent: | Rudolph Flothow | |
Darsteller: | Richard Dix | |
Janis Carter | ||
Walter Baldwin | ||
Minerva Urecal | ||
Howard Freeman | ||
Edgar Dearing | ||
Eddie Kane |
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