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Voice of the Whistler (1945): “I know many strange tales…”

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 12th 2012

Voice of the Whistler (1945), the fourth entry in Columbia’s popular B-movie series based on the CBS West Coast radio show,

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Sep 5th 2012

The omnipresent narrator (Otto Forrest) known as The Whistler introduces us to a “strange man” (Richard Dix) identified as

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 29th 2012

It would be no small exaggeration to suggest that more old-time radio fans listen to The Whistler today than did audiences

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 23rd 2012

Eugene Curran “Gene” Kelly was born 100 years ago on this date—a Pittsburgh, PA native from the Highland Hills section of t

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 17th 2012

Four years after the celebrated radio “feud” between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen got underway, Paramount Pictures d

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Aug 9th 2012

Some time back, a PR representative was nice enough to send me a promotional copy of a DVD box set entitled Dark Crimes: a