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The Whispering Chorus

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The Whispering Chorus
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NR,1hr 23min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1918
Director:
Cecil B. DeMille
Starring:
Noah Beery, Sr., W.H. Brown, John Burton  ...more
Synopsis: The Whispering Chorus was arguably the closest Cecil B. DeMille ever came to making an "art" picture. Stalwart DeMille supporting player Raymond Hatton gave the performance of his career as embezzling bank clerk John Trimble. Hoping to escape punishment for his crimes, Trimble arranges for an anonymous, mutilated corpse to be identified as his own then starts life over again with a new identity. Several years later, however, Trimble is caught in a web of circumstantial evidence, and ends up being ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
Sometimes referred to as "the first film noir," Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus is certainly downbeat but is perhaps more akin to the "uplift" melodramas of Lois Weber and others and comparable in some ways to Edgar Allan Poe's The Telltale Heart. Like Poe, the conflict here is in the soul of the protagonist, the browbeaten clerk John Tremble (Raymond Hatton), rather than some external force. ... Full Review
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