Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

MartinHafer "The Thirteenth Hour" is the final installment of The Whistler series which starred Richard Dix. Sadly, shortly after making the movie, Dix died of a heart attack at age 56.When the story begins, Steve Reynolds (Richard Dix) owns a small trucking company and life is just fine. However, he's in for a horrible time...and it all begins when he picks up a hitchhiker. His car is run off the road and there is no obvious evidence that another driver was involved. Steve tells the cops to ask the hitchhiker what happened...and the man disappeared! The court believes Steve was drunk and they take away his license...and it's obvious the cops have it out for Steve. Soon after, Steve is deliberately set-up for murder when an unknown person runs over a policeman in Steve's truck. Steve is knocked out and stuck behind the wheel...and the police think he's a killer. So, he runs away before the police can apprehend him and he spends the rest of the film trying to discover who is doing all this to him and why. The only clue he has is a glove.This is an enjoyable and well written installment of this B-movie series. Not among the very best but quite good and well worth seeing.

mark.waltz In his last film, Richard Dix finds his life turned upside down thanks to rules and regulations for truck drivers that result in the suspension of his license. He finds that one drink is one too many thanks to another driver too busy trying to kiss his girlfriend than pay attention to the road. His only witness disappears seemingly into thin air after the truck veers off the road to avoid the other driver, crashing into a gas station ironically as a police officer reports in that nothing is going on. That officer, it turns out, is the rival for the affections of his waitress girlfriend (Karen Morley). Unable to drive after the trial with a suspended license, Dix finds himself the main suspect in the murder of his rival, seemingly linked to the trucking company Dix has started. The road to his clearing leads him straight to the path of...you guessed it...the Whistler.Dix helps a tricky, but intriguing story line, move along as a rather supernatural element takes over the organized crime hints. Who is that mysterious passenger who disappears? While only the whistler knows for sure, I suspected that he was actually the whistler guiding Dix to his destiny. Moving at a fast and furious speed, this has great character performances and moody photography as well to recommend it.

Spondonman The 13th Hour was Richard Dix's 7th and final hour with the Whistler films; in fact he retired and died 2 years after this. It's not the best or the worst in the series, but still more than an adequate engrossing potboiler. It had the usual tight Columbia b picture budget yet atmospheric sets and photography plus the usual twisty story.Honest and dependable truck firm owner Dix suddenly finds himself guilty of causing damage through driving whilst under the influence of alcohol, but of course he's innocent. This being the Whistler means it goes from bad to worse, and wanted murderer Dix really has his back up against the wall for most of the picture trying to find the real culprits. If you're familiar with the tenor of the previous entries you can probably see the big twist a-coming, but the beautiful little twist just after will get you! Favourite bits: the atmospheric shots outside Eileen's café; the denouement inside and outside Mabel's apartment, unfortunately leading to a bit of a trite end.It wasn't quite the end of the dimly-lit road though – there was one more film to come (sans Dix) which wasn't too bad but the Canon is the 7 with him. All well worth watching if you prefer a simpler more complex world, when a b&w mystery film was just that and not a sex, violence, cgi cartoon riddled gimmick and hype fuelled socially inclusive seedy work of Art like nowadays.

dwpollar 1st watched 5/29/2000 - (Dir-William Clemens): Interesting story that keeps you attached till the end in this obvious "one in a series of films" surrounding mysterious things that happen around a whistler that shows up in shadows.Very much like "The Fugitive" TV series and movie that followed.