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The Whistler

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  • Mystery

March 30, 1944 (US)

1h 0m

Radio's Master of Mystery... Now on the Screen!

A guilt-ridden man blames himself for his wife's death and secretly pays an assassin to kill him. But then he finds out that his wife isn't dead at all. And now the assassin is on his trail, with no way to call off the hit.

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