An artifact of Hollywood's early 1940s infatuation with psychology, The Power of the Whistler recalls several better movies, including Jack Hively's Street of Chance (1942), with which it shares some plot elements. If this vehicle isn't especially ambitious or demanding, it does keep the viewer jumping through several suspenseful hoops, helped by some colorful character performances and a very short time-line that could involve several murders in the works. To reveal more would be unfair, except to say that the writers got their geography right in terms of the setting and plot, and that star Richard Dix never made the transition from helplessness to menace quicker, or seem easier, scarier, or more frightening than in some the scenes in this neat little B-thriller.