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Whispering City is a 1947 black-and-white film directed by Fyodor Otsep. The movie was filmed on location in Quebec and Montmorency Falls, Québec, Canada

Taking place in Quebec City, The Whispering City tells the story of a lawyer and a patron of the arts, Albert Frédéric, who, earlier in life, caused a murder and made it look like an accident for financial gain. Later in life, a dying woman tells a reporter the tale of how she thinks the accident was actually murder. The young American reporter, Mary Roberts, begins investigating the case, unaware that the charming lawyer may be behind it all. Meanwhile Michel Lacoste, a classical composer, who is supported by Frédéric, is having marriage troubles. Finally his wife kills herself and leaves the husband a note. Frédéric sneaks into the apartment, takes the note and convinces the man that he killed her in a drunken rage. Michel, whose night was indeed blacked out by drink, can't remember anything. The lawyer then offers the composer a deal: Kill reporter Mary Roberts in exchange for legal representation that will guarantee to get the younger man off the hook. The man, seeing no other choice, agrees reluctantly. The man and woman meet but he can't kill her. In fact, they begin to fall in love. Instead the figure out that the lawyer is the killer and set about a scheme to drive the lawyer into confessing to the crime.

Cast

in the film's credit order:

Helmut Dantine
as Michel Lacoste
Mary Anderson
as Mary Roberts
Paul Lukas
as Albert Frédéric
John Pratt as Edward Durant, editor

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