The Whistler

The popular radio series was brought to the screen in this low-budget programmer. Dix plays a rich industrialist who learns that his wife has drowned; devastated, Dix contacts Costello and has him put out a contract on his (Dix's) own life. Costello speaks with Naish, a professional killer, who takes up the contract. Soon after, Costello is killed by police and Dix learns that his wife is not dead after all, but held by the Japanese on a Pacific island. He tries to cancel the contract, but cannot. Now he must avoid the killer, who has decided that he will murder Dix by frightening him to death. Several times he narrowly escapes death when the mysterious sound of "T...