Whispering City (1947) CRIME-THRILLER



Stars: Paul Lukas, Mary Anderson, Helmut Dantine
Director: Fyodor Otsep

When a nagging wife commits suicide, her husband is threatened with a murder rap by his lawyer, unless he kills a certain female reporter for him!

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34 Replies to “Whispering City (1947) CRIME-THRILLER”

  1. "… you trusted me, I trusted you, THEN; Now we know a lot more about each other."
    Wow. I should have seen this flick back in '47 … but I was born in 1948.

  2. Hey, Sebnup—What you're describing is a problem provided by the lab that made the reduction print form 35 to 16mm. The sound track reader was mis adjusted and picked up some of the picture frame lines which results in the "drubbing" heard underneath the soundtrack. Because it comes and goes at various levels of loudness, the misadjustment was very slight and likely couldn't be heard with a small high freq range speaker,,,, the printer should have used headphones or at least been much more careful….just cheap lab work….

  3. The composer here says that he knows his composition won't make any money, but it's worth doing. I myself do work that won't make me any money either, and people expect it to be automated any day now, and so not worth doing at all: translating.

  4. Excellent film. It takes a while to get going, but if you go along for the ride, so to speak (pun intended), you will have spent a profitable 91 minutes watching this. Wonderful performances by the principals (including Helmut Dantine, Paul Lukas, Mary Anderson, John Pratt, and Joy Lafleur) and by all of the character actors and actresses (particularly Mimi D'Estee, George Alexander, and Louis-Philippe Hebert). Well-written and well-directed, too – and the movie shows off Quebec City and its surrounding area to great effect. Thank you very much for sharing this with us!

  5. "Crazy," is a weapon of deceit the Masters of humanity use again and again, while never blunting the edge:  "Conspiracy theorist!"  Etc.

  6. Eagle-Lyon Films! But what a great film, the best! The question is, just how many of these great films are out there that we haven't seen. I, for one, am extremely grateful to you, AND, for the captioning to get the facts straight. Forget any flaws, just gratitude 4 U.

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