Love the “Whistler” series! Thank you for posting this movie!

I love listening to the Whistler on old time radio. It was on the CBS Radio Network and sponsored by Signal Oil on the West Coast. It was on the radio from 1942 until 1955.

@jeannehageman3198

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't miss a night of the Whistler in the 50's. Was just a kid but loved this series! It can still be heard at time on 'Old time Radio'! I never could figure out if Richard Dix was a good actor or not. I thought he seemed overly dramatic in most of his movies. Just my opinion.

@shawnmalone9711

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeannehageman3198 You can find episodes of the Whistler on KZread. Almost all of the Whistler movies are on KZread. The Whistler was on TV in 1954. You can find a couple of episodes on KZread. I believe Richard Dix was the perfect actor to star in the Whistler movie series. He was an old time silent movie actor and made a successful transition to the talkies. He played soldiers and cowboys and was a sturdy character actor. The Whistler movies revitalized his career and he might have been successful in the early years of television , but he died in 1949. There is a Richard Dix website , go ahead and check it out.

@jimjoslyn7222

4 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1947 we were lucky very lucky but every year a little of our luck is running out God bless you Sean

@shawnmalone9711

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimjoslyn7222 God bless you too Jim! I'm a Kennedy New Frontier baby but I've been listening to old time radio since 1975. The 70s had the nostalgia craze of the 40s and 50s and I got into it. Now , I'm nostalgic for the 70s and 80s! 😁😁😁😁

@tomripsin730

3 жыл бұрын

@@shawnmalone9711 I've got a similar story. One of the rock stations in Minneapolis began presenting The Shadow when I was about twelve in the early Seventies. I later discovered Shows like Suspense, Inner Sanctum and The Whistler on cassette tapes, and acquired a life long habit. When I came across free downloads of classic radio shows on the Internet Archive website, I felt like I hit the jackpot!

Thank you for sharing this wonderful movie 🎥❤

Listened to the whistler on serious sat radio for along time. Didn't know it was ever a movie/tv thing. Happy to watch it.

I love old movies they are the best.

@MichaelGunner123

2 жыл бұрын

Classic Films!

entertaining movie, thank you.

Richard Dix's voice kind of reminds me of Lon Chaney Jr's. Thanks for providing these videos!

A classic who done it with a bunch of twists...

He was a great actor in his youth. "Ghost Ship" is a wonderful film and his performance, brilliant. This was Mr. Dix' last film.

@Daisnap

2 жыл бұрын

I agree about Ghost Ship. Wow! Fantastic film, and Dix is great in it.

Awesome thank you for posting 🌹🌹🌹🌹

Thanks for this one. Very well acted.

Notice the use of shadow in these black and white movies, especially from the windows against the walls.

Great story

good addition to the series, thanks for the upload

The Whistler always had the surprise twist at the end. This movie had surprise twists throughout from beginning to end! An exceptional movie that will keep you guessing!

TY for upload. Definitely an oldie. Enjoyed.

Thanks for posting. Had listened to The Whistler radio series both in syndication & later on the Internet & only now have discovered the film series thanks to your efforts. I doubt it can be as grand as the radio series but we'll soon find out. Thanks again for posting.

Mysterious Intruder, 11 April 1946 (USA). Richard Dix as Don Gale; Barton MacLane as Detective Taggart; Nina Vale as Joan Hill - Gale's Secretary; Regis Toomey as James Summers; Helen Mowery as Freda Hanson; Mike Mazurki as Harry Pontos; Pamela Blake as Elora Lund; Charles Lane as Detective Burns; Paul E. Burns as Edward Stillwell; Kathleen Howard as Rose Denning; Harlan Briggs as Mr. Brown; Jessie Arnold, Woman in Window; Stanley Blystone as Henry - Second Cop; Jack Carrington, Bartender; Eddy Chandler, Cop in Squad Car; Kernan Cripps as Kelly - First Cop; Edith Evanson as Mrs. Ward; Otto Forrest, The Whistler (voice); Martin Garralaga, Detective; Selmer Jackson as Dr. Connell; Charles Jordan, Desk Clerk; Donald Kerr, Reporter; Joe Palma, Police Guard Outside Stillwell's Store; Arthur Space as Davis - Summers' Henchman; Dan Stowell, Reporter; Harry Strang, Police Desk Sergeant; Isabel Withers as Miss Gordon - PBX Operator.

Thanks, good stuff.

This was the one `Whistler` movie of the eight that I`d not watched & I thank you for posting it. Richard Dix had a drink problem which is why he was replaced for the final movie in the series. In the scene at about the 40 minute mark with Pamela Blake, who played the real Elora Lund, Richard Dix noticeably slurs his lines.

@allenwatkins4972

2 жыл бұрын

Don't hear it.

Thanks , good movie srm818 🎥 🎬👏🏾

282, 546 View's So Far: Film (1946). Mysterious Intruder. Stars: Nina Vale, Helen Mowery, and Pamela Blake. Tuesday, April 18 - 2023.

Mike Mazurki made a career playing henchmen. He was in just about every TV show including Perry Mason and Gilligan's Island.

@maxpayne2574

Жыл бұрын

I wasn't sure who you meant until I saw his face. He certainly was a great character actor.

"Did you lose a shoe?" Are you kidding me? Those writers had a sense of humor. lol

These films are great. Thank you so very much for sharing them. ❤❤❤❤

I used to listen to the original 'The Whistler' radio plays when OTR had them ...

Groovy! 😊

Very Enjoyable. Thanks for the upload

Thank you for posting this old movie it was really enjoyable, if only we could go back to those days, when sex and slavery and extreme violence is all you get now.

@MichaelGunner123

2 жыл бұрын

Classic Film.

Anything that has Mike Mazurki in it is going to be good.

If you like this, you'd love the radio series.

Richard Dix wasn't a bad actor on some levels. He could underplay and was good at reacting to what other actors were giving him.

@johnryan3913

3 жыл бұрын

He was very good in "Ghost Ship" from 1944.

Directed by William Castle 🏰 who, of course, worked with Vincent Price (The Tingler, etc.) -- Many thanks for sharing!

Slurs his lines that Jeff Clarke mentioned and still Richard Dix was the best Actor in all the Whistler movies.

interesting, things like this rare finds still happen, but this is the only movie I know with that theme.

Good one. Dix gives out of the box performance. Cop tandem a riot

This is the very first one I've seen, which was a big mistake, I should've started from the 1st entry!

Nina Vale was so lovely

Good looking detective. Looks like my grandfather.

The Whistler is cool 😎

Memories

The private detective sounds exactly like Forrest Tucker.

The old mans voice is creepy. The detective in this film is the mad killer looney in 'the power of Whistler', which I've only 'just' watched right before this film-Scarey, especially wen he shouted at old man OTT. INTRIGUING FILM, strange ending.... Felt incomplete

I saw this exact scenario in a movie or maybe in an old TV show several years ago. I can't remember the details, but it must have been patterned after this.

Just saw it on TV for the first time. Really absorbing and effective with its revelations about this or that character, and pretty harsh twists I can't talk about without spoiler alerting. But well worth a watch.

Gale is sneaky. But not a bad guy. He's just trying to fix it.

Neat! Barton MacLane and Charles Lane in perhaps their own film together as cop partners. At 26:25

jeepers!

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men the Phantom knows

$100 in 1946 equivalent to $1,430 today.

@38:48-38:51,...him: "when have I ever robbed a client " her: "whenever you've had an opportunity"

I like the Swedish connection.

again at about the 22 minute mark Dix is sneaking around the killers house and kicks a bottle and makes a racket, then he continues to tip toe around so no one will hear him, if they didn't hear him kick the bottle they are either not there...or they're DEAD, either way sneaking around is now pointless

The end didnt make a lick of sense

The detective is not the guilty person,but this case has too many twist,then another body found or discovered!!!!!

only 12.24 in and Mike Mazurki is in the shop, now he is going down into the basement, he opened the door(he would not have known it was the basement) there was a flight of stairs in front of him so of course without a light he would have taken a tumble so the first thing he did was switch the light on, that gives me two questions, first why did he switch the light on how did he know there were stairs in the dark? after all he had been wandering around upstairs in the dark without switching on a light and question 2, how did he go straight to the light switch in the pitch black in a foreign house??

Not many guys whistle these days.

@MBFLA45

5 жыл бұрын

Probably as many as you see chewing gum.

@prevost8686

5 жыл бұрын

Dad used to say that “a whistling woman and a crowing hen always come to some bad end.”

@MichaelGunner123

2 жыл бұрын

This guy CAN'T whistle. Just am incapable of doing so. Have never bn able to whistle.

@leelarson107

Жыл бұрын

Maybe Congress can pass a bill making it a felony. Everything else is illegal these days.

Enjoyed it...But I didn't like how it end.

The yr I was. Born😊 see the old cars . An the clothes. Woman. Dressed like ladies

Of course they'll know it wasn't him. He called the station, lol.

Now I get it,the whistler detective,is the man that played the lone ranger!!!!!!! Hmmnn🤔😣😑.

@auletjohnast03638

3 жыл бұрын

Angela Magruder, Wrong that is Richard Dix not the guy the played the Lone Ranger.

@sandradankowski6120

2 жыл бұрын

Clayton Moore played The Lone Ranger on TV show.

Only watch this to fall asleep by. The story is ...... ZZZZZZ

As sponsored by Signal Oil

Mazurka had a law degree! Fordham.

@16tons30

2 жыл бұрын

@mickey bitsko "Mazurka" is the name of a Polish dance. MAZURKI is the name of the actor.😉

High body count in this one.

I always picture the Whistler with shoulder length blonde hair, a wide brimmed fedora, a black leather trench coat and a hooked nose.

@winstonpoole9906

3 жыл бұрын

Keep away from those mirrors...

Who writes this crazy stuff and why do I watch it?

@harmoniabalanza

2 жыл бұрын

it's very escapist. When my life was full and fulfilling I didn't watch stuff like this.

Looks like the bad guy stabbing small clerk is Victor mclaglen

@marykiriakou8680

Жыл бұрын

The actors name is Mike Mazurki not Victor M

Is too bad how some actors don't need others to destroy their careers, they do it themselves, Alcoholic Richard Dix!

@MichaelGunner123

2 жыл бұрын

How hateful & hurtful of you! Alcoholism is a disease & is often passed on to other generations among families. "Thou who has not sinned, cast the first stone!"

Reimbursement Dr Virna Pandey Misra

I know nothing because I walk by day

confusing mish mash

I skipped through this - didn't follow the ending, did Dale die at end?

@fredneecher1746

2 жыл бұрын

That would be a spoiler.

@MichaelGunner123

2 жыл бұрын

Who is Dale? A character named Gale dies at the very end.

@MichaelGunner123

2 жыл бұрын

@@fredneecher1746 Wld be a spoiler not to answer question.

Standard fare.

no sound

@ScottsCollection

4 жыл бұрын

You have to turn the sound up.

Should've gotten rid of the odd shoe so it could not be matched to the left at the scene.

@STORMY0O

Жыл бұрын

👞😉

Voice sounds like Vincent Price .

A curious admixture of Warner Brothers stock actors, almost all the props from the film noir warehouse located on a back lot....cheesy dialogue from a North Hollywood hot dog stand....a little bit of borrowed plot from "Murder My Sweet" and just enough claustrophobic staginess to keep the radio audience's attention.

20:11 Flicks his dirty lite crab stick over a wooden fence still alight. Looks like in to the wooden house's yard.

what an odd actor what an odd film. he's seems almost drunk, his delivery, maybe written especially for him. he's a disconcerting kind of actor, much the same in all his films.

@fredneecher1746

2 жыл бұрын

He was drunk, by all accounts.

Well that ended crappily. :/

Nostalgia killed the rat!!! It’s true, today people watch a lot more junk than in the old days. On top of the fresh garbage, they watch the old trash!!!

many of these old films were short--one hour or so--maybe targeted for women who couldn't get away from family or work for more than that.

@MichaelGunner123

2 жыл бұрын

CLASSIC FILMS!

ditto barton maclanne - always the same - of coures he never played a good guy, always the standard gruff voiced moronic type. still, going back to dix, he is unusual in his delivery,almost improvisitional.

BUT MICKEY MOUSE🐭 DIED AND IS GOING TO BE BURY TOMORROW. NOW, LETS HAVE A MOMENT OF PRAYER🙏 FOR THE POOR RAT.🐀😁

Not crazy about ending. Entertaining, though.

Kind of a rip off of Agatha Christie's 3 Blind Mice turned into a (boring) series

Getting paid $100 & Mr. detective is all uppity in the old man's face? $100 was worth $1,369.51 today - I guess that's not enough for "an unusual" detective - Ha!

@garyolsen3409

9 ай бұрын

I came up with $1567.00