The Thirteenth Hour (The Whistler) 1947 ★★★ CC: Film-noir/Mystery (Richard Dix)

About

The Thirteenth Hour is a 1947 American mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler. Directed by William Clemens, the production features Richard Dix, Karen Morley and John Kellogg. It is the seventh of Columbia Pictures' eight "Whistler" films produced in the 1940s. This was the last of Dix's seven starring roles in the series, and one of only two that featured him in a sympathetic light. Suffering from heart disease, Dix was unable to continue his acting career and died in September 1949 at the age of 56.

Plot: Trucking company owner/driver Steve Reynolds finds himself caught up in a feud with a rival firm. A masked assailant associated with the adversarial company attacks Steve and steals his truck. The thief runs down and kills a policeman and leaves other clues pointing at Reynolds as the murderer. With only a glove that has diamonds stashed inside the thumb, and the help of his love interest and her son, Reynolds evades police while working to clear himself.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Film noir

Licence or status

Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it. Its uploader marked it public domain; the US Copyright Office's records show its copyright renewed on 31 May 1974 by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (PWH) (Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Parts 12–13: Motion Pictures, vol. 28 (1974), p. 90, renewal R577564).

Rights statement

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Credit

Rudolph C. Flothow

Language

English

Subtitles

English

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