Rent The Thirteenth Hour / The Return of the Whistler (1948)
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2h 9min
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- Synopsis:
Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood).
The Thirent Hour (1947)In the 7th of Columbia's "Whistler" series, truck-firm owner Steve Reynolds (Richard Dix) gets involved in a feud with a rival firm, and shortly thereafter is slugged by a masked assailant who steals the truck he is driving. The assailant runs down a policeman in the truck and leaves other clues pointing to Reynolds as the cop killer. With only a glove, with diamonds stuck in the thumb, as a clue, and while evading the police and other characters after him and the diamonds, Reynolds finally runs down the guilty party and clears himself.
The Return of the Whistler (1948)
On the eve of his marriage, a young man's fiance disappears. He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder revolving around his fiance's dead ex-husband and his wealthy, corrupt family.- Actors:
- Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey, Bernadene Hayes, Mark Dennis, Anthony Warde, Ernie Adams, Cliff Clark, Stanley Blystone, Hurley Breen, Paul Campbell, Jack Carrington, Kernan Cripps, Lew Davis, Otto Forrest, Selmer Jackson, Charles Jordan, Robert Kellard
- Directors:
- William Clemens, D. Ross Lederman
- Producers:
- Rudolph C. Flothow
- Writers:
- Edward Bock, Raymond L. Schrock, Leslie Edgley, J. Donald Wilsonm, Maurice Tombragelm, Cornell Woolrich
- Aka:
- The 13th Hour / The Hunter Is a Fugitive
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/05/2024
- Run Time:
- 129 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with academic and curator Eloise Ross on 'The Thirteenth Hour' (2024)
- It's Murder (1944, 9 mins): dramatised documentary, produced for the war effort and featuring a number of cast and crew members from the Whistler film series
- Image galleries: promotional and publicity materials
- World premieres on Blu-ray
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Sad to watch the last two of thr eight Whistler b-movies. The seventh, with Richard Dix, turns around a familar movie trope - rival trucking firms - and keeps up a fine pace as owner Richard Dix also falls foul of a vindicrive police officer but is aifed, in a tale full of double crossing, by Karen Morley as the owner of a diner wjhere her teenage son proves to be one of the savviest of them all. The final film - The Return of the Whistler - lacks Dix but is based on a Cornell Woolrich story and turns - and what turns! - a good variant on the familiar themes of somebody gone missing and a corrupt sanitorium. Both films are well worth watching, and leave one wishing that more films would be made with an hour's running time.
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