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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Frank Butler (writer)
Karl Kamb (writer)
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Release Date:
9 December 1948 (USA) more
Plot:
Smith as an iron-willed railroad detective. When his friend Murray is fired from the railraod and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains... more | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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Whispering Past the Railroad more (10 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alan Ladd | ... | Luke 'Whispering' Smith |
 | Robert Preston | ... | Murray Sinclair |
 | Brenda Marshall | ... | Marian Sinclair |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Barney Rebstock |
| William Demarest | ... | Bill Dansing |
| Fay Holden | ... | Emmy Dansing |
| Murvyn Vye | ... | Blake Barton |
 | Frank Faylen | ... | Whitey Du Sang |
| John Eldredge | ... | George McCloud |
| Ward Wood | ... | Leroy Barton |
| J. Farrell MacDonald | ... | Bill Baggs |
 | Will Wright | ... | Sheriff McSwiggin |
| Don Barclay | ... | Dr. Sawbuck |
| Eddy Waller | ... | Conductor (as Eddy C. Waller) |
| Ashley Cowan | ... | Train Brakeman |
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88 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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The railhead town site was constructed on the Paramount lot adjacent to the neighboring RKO Pictures studio. It became the basis for what would go on to become Paramount's famous western town set as seen in TV's "Bonanza" (1959) and numerous other TV shows and movies. Prior to 1948, Paramount didn't have a western set on its studio lot. A short line of track was laid down that allowed a working period locomotive to pull into town. more
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Continuity: Just after 23 minutes into the film, Whispering Smith is given a harmonica, the box of which he drops to the ground, only to have it immediately reappear in his hand. more
Quotes:
Murray Sinclair:
Barney heard you'd been shot up. He asked after ya.
Bill Dansing:
Yeah, he seemed mighty disappointed when he heard you wasn't buried yet.
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Referenced in Living Steam: Virginia and Truckee Then and Now at the Nevada State Railroad Museum (2008) (V) more
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Laramie more
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Colorful, but dull, tale of two friends "working on the railroad." Alan Ladd plays the friend who falls a little more to the good side of the tracks - and Robert Preston plays the friend who bends over more on the wrong side of the tracks. Of course, there is a Woman between them… she married one, but longs for the other - or, maybe she loved/loves them both? The sets and photography are lovely. There is a big railroad and train running through town, which means robbers, and a lot of shooting, are obligatory. I guess the ending could be interpreted as a little open-ended, but I think Mr. Preston decides whether Mr. Ladd lives - or dies...
***** Whispering Smith (1948) Leslie Fenton ~ Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall