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The fifth entry in the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", opens with kindly old music store owner Edward Stillwell () hiring private detective Don Gale () to find a girl Stillwell hasnt seen in seven years. Gale sends Freida Hanson (Helen Mowery) to pose as the missing Elora Lund (), and she learns that some items left by Eloras mother are now extremely valuable before Harry Pontos () comes into the room and kills Stillwell. He also kidnaps Freida but releases her when Don announces she is an impostor. With Freidas help, Gale locates Pontos apartment, who is shot down in a gun battle with the arriving police. Gale returns to his place but is arrested by detectives Taggart and Burns and jailed. The detectives later find the real Elora, who has been in a sanitarium recovering from an accident. Gale is released and Elora is sent by the detectives to see if he will disclose why Stillwell was looking for her. Gale, planning to cheat her, tells her what the secret treasure is. Gales disappears and becomes the object of a manhunt when he is wrongfully accused of killing Freida, who has been killed by James Summers, her apartment manager, who has also discovered the secret. Joan Hill, Gales secretary, locates and warns him about the police. He tells her he is going to the record store to find some recordings made by Jenny Lind worth $200,000.
A private detective is hired by the owner of a music store to find a young girl he grew up with. Suspicious as to why someone would pay a lot of money to find someone he hasnt seen in years, the detective digs further and soon winds up in a scheme involving a set of valuable old phonograph records, a dead millionaire and murder.
Richard Dix
Don Gale
Barton MacLane
Detective Taggart
Nina Vale
Joan Hill - Gale's Secretary
Regis Toomey
James Summers
Helen Mowery
Freda Hanson
Mike Mazurki
Harry Pontos
Pamela Blake
Elora Lund
Charles Lane
Detective Burns
Paul E. Burns
Edward Stillwell
Kathleen Howard
Rose Denning
Harlan Briggs
Mr. Brown
Jessie Arnold
Woman in Window
Stanley Blystone
Henry - Second Cop
Jack Carrington
Bartender
Eddy Chandler
Cop in Squad Car
Kernan Cripps
Kelly - First Cop
Edith Evanson
Mrs. Ward
Otto Forrest
The Whistler
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