gridoon2024 Review of The Mark of the Whistler

The Mark of the Whistler (1944)

Very engrossing, if a bit too heavy on the coincidences

[7/10 · 17 February 2013]

The second entry in the "Whistler" series is extremely engrossing to watch, with some terrific scenes along the way (like Dix mistaking the siren of an ambulance for that of a police car coming to get him, or a man talking in the middle of the night and only his hat and his eyes being visible), but it gets a little carried away at the end with its plot coincidences (example: the time and location of the car crash). Then again, you can attribute all that to "fate", which seems to be a recurring theme of the series. Richard Dix is very good here - he makes you want him to get away with his fraud; Janis Carter brings glamor and a rather modern attitude to her relatively small part. *** out of 4.