Directed by William Castle
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
The first and probably best of The Whistler series. Richard Dix is despondent after his wife's death and hires an anonymous hit man to kill himself. For awhile, he looks around corners and suspects every person he meets to be the assassin. One day he gets a telegram telling him his wife is alive but a Japanese prisoner of war. However, when he tries to call off the hit, his only connection to the man has been killed. He eventually confronts the man in person hoping to convince him of the truth. It plays like an episode of the Twilight Zone, and Dix is a terrible actor, but the script is just clever enough to overcome those deficiencies. It also helps to have J. Carrol Naish as the killer.
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