The Mark of the Whistler (1944)

The Mark of the Whistler (1944). 1h 2m | Approved

“I donu0026#39;t know exactly why, But I prefer the series thru TV stuff, made in the fifties. Different stories but also lead characters each time, much gloomy and surprising too. I commented many of them in the past. This one, made for big screen release, I discovered it thirty years ago, before I knew the TV show. I liked it because it was made by William Castle, in his early years, before he went to direct westerns and adventure yarns for the infamous Sam Katzman at Columbia. Later he went to Universal for some crime films, then he found his best style in horror movies, but with his own trademark, very special trademark. He will remain famous for those horror features. So this movie is not the best of the whole, as far as I remember, and Richard Dix is surely the best help. The topic is intelligent, above average, in a way surprising, at least not the usual grade Z common junk. Only the ending is a disappointment. Thatu0026#39;s it, in the episodes of this series, there were more twists than in the long length movies. The audiences were not the same: home for TV and movie theaters for those who paid their tickets. And that explains many many things.”