Monday, September 10, 2012

The Power of the Whistler (1945)

Columbia Pictures
Directed by Lew Landers
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

In the third entry of the series, Richard Dix is involved in a minor traffic accident and loses his memory. Pretty Janis Carter and her sister try to help him recover his identity by tracking down clues. They don't notice that small animals and pets have a way of turning up dead when he's around. Dix eventually remembers he's a recently escaped inmate from the mental institute and is hell bent on murdering the judge who sent him there. It takes awhile to get going, and some of the supporting characters are clumsy, but generally an entertaining mystery-thriller.

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