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''Whispering Smith'' is a 1948 American Western film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring Creator/AlanLadd as a railroad detective assigned to stop a gang of train robbers. The supporting cast includes Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall and Donald Crisp.
Luke “Whispering” Smith is a by-the-book, no-nonsense railroad detective who learns his friend, Murray Sinclair, has been fired from his railroad job. Seeking vengeance, Sinclair begins helping outlaw Barney Rebstock wreck trains. Now, Smith must find and bring his old friend to justice…at any cost.
Luke “Whispering” Smith is a by-the-book, no-nonsense railroad detective who learns his friend, Murray Sinclair, has been fired from his railroad job. Seeking vengeance, Sinclair begins helping outlaw Barney Rebstock wreck trains. Now, Smith must find and bring his old friend to justice…at any cost.
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''Whispering Smith'' is a 1948 American Western film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring Creator/AlanLadd as a railroad detective assigned to stop a gang of train robbers. The supporting cast includes Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall and Marshall, Donald Crisp.
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Luke “Whispering” Smith (Ladd) is a by-the-book, no-nonsense railroad detectivewho learns his whose old friend, Murray Sinclair, Sinclair (Preston), has been fired from his own railroad job. Seeking vengeance, Sinclair begins helping outlaw Barney Rebstock wreck (Crisp) hold up trains. Now, Smith must find and bring his old friend to justice…at justice… at any cost.cost.
Luke “Whispering” Smith (Ladd) is a by-the-book, no-nonsense railroad detective
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* TheStarscream: Whitey Du Sang is TheDragon to BigBad Barney Rebstock. When the {{Posse}} is closing in on the gang at Rebstock's ranch, Rebstock tells the rest of the gang to scatter while he holds the posse off for as long as possible. While the rest of the gang obeys, Du Stang stays behind; believing that Rebstock plans to betray the gang to the posse and keep the loot for himself. He confronts Rebstock and kills him before attempting to steal the loot and dying in a shootout with the posse.
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* TheDragon: The sadistic and psychotic Whitey Du Sang is [[BigBad Barney Rebstock's]] right hand man and chief enforcer.
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* BigBad: Barney Rebstock, a powerful local {{Rancher}}, is also the head of the gang of train robbers that Smith is hunting. Smith is convinced Rebstock is the mastermind behind the gang, but is having trouble proving it.
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* SesquipedalianSmith: Smith's first name is actually Luke,but most folks call him "Whispering" Smith.
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* SesquipedalianSmith: Smith's first name is actually Luke,but Luke, but most folks call him "Whispering" Smith.
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* TrailOfBlood: When Smith arrives at Sinclair's ranch, he realises that Sinclair is wounded and inside when spots drops of blood on the porch leading inside.Smith pretends to leave and waits for Sinclair to reveal himself.
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* TrailOfBlood: When Smith arrives at Sinclair's ranch, he realises that Sinclair is wounded and inside when spots drops of blood on the porch leading inside.inside .Smith pretends to leave and waits for Sinclair to reveal himself.
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* WantedPoster: When the Barton brothers force the station agent at Coyote Creek to stop the train ,the agent looks at the three men, and then at the wanted poster on the wall, and realises the faces are the same.
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* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Smith's EvilFormerFriend Murray Sinclair attempts to put a LastBreathBullet into Smith's back but expires before he can do so.]]
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* BlastingIItOutOfTheirHands: When the wounded Sinclair tries to shoot at the buckboard containing Marian and Bill, Smith steps out of hiding and shoots the rifle out of his hands,
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* BlastingIItOutOfTheirHands: BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: When the wounded Sinclair tries to shoot at the buckboard containing Marian and Bill, Smith steps out of hiding and shoots the rifle out of his hands,
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* BlastingIItOutOfTheirHands: When the wounded Sinclair tries to shoot at the buckboard containing Marian and Bill, Smith steps out of hiding and shoots the rifle out of his hands,
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* BloodTrail: When Smith arrives at Sinclair's ranch, he realises that Sinclair is wounded and inside when spots drops of blood on the porch leading inside.Smith pretends to leave and waits for Sinclair to reveal himself.
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* TrailOfBlood: When Smith arrives at Sinclair's ranch, he realises that Sinclair is wounded and inside when spots drops of blood on the porch leading inside.Smith pretends to leave and waits for Sinclair to reveal himself.
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* BloodTrail: When Smith arrives at Sinclair's ranch, he realises that Sinclair is wounded and inside when spots drops of blood on the porch leading inside.Smith pretends to leave and waits for Sinclair to reveal himself.
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* EvilFormerFriend: After his friend Murray Sinclair is fired from the railroad and begins helping Rebstock wreck trains, Smith must go after him.
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* {{Posse}}: After Rebstock's gang holds up a train and Whitey murders one of the guards, Smith and the sheriff form up a posse which they load up on to a train to get to where the train was robbed, and then head off on horseback after the gang.
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* ShootOutTheLock: Murray Sinclair shoots the lock off the switch he throws to cause his first train wreck.
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* SalvagePirates: After being fired from the railroad, Murray Sinclair joins forces with Rebstock's gang of train robbers and uses his expertise as the former head of the railroad wrecker crew to cause train wrecks that Rebstock's gang then loot.
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* StealingFromTheTill: Murray Sinclair, the head of the wrecking crew, is fired from the railroad for helping himself to thousands of dollars worth of cargo from wrecked trains.
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* SesquipedalianSmith: Smith's first name is actually Luke,but most folks call him "Whispering" Smith.
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* SiblingsInCrime: At the start of the movie, Smith is pursuing the Barton brothers, Blake, Leroy, and Gabby; a trio of train robbers. Smith shoots and kill Leroy and Gabby, but Blake escapes,and later returns to take another pop at Smith.
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* SiblingsInCrime: At the start of the movie, Smith is pursuing the Barton brothers, Blake, Leroy, and Gabby; a trio of train robbers. Smith shoots and kill Leroy and Gabby, but Blake escapes,and later returns to take another pop atSmith.Smith.
* TrainJob: Luke "Whispering" Smith a railroad detective assigned to stop a gang of train robbers.
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* SiblingsInCrime: At the start of the movie, Smith is pursuing the Barton brothers, Blake, Leroy, and Gabby; a trio of train robbers. Smith shoots and kill Leroy and Gabby, but Blake escapes,and later returns to take another pop at
* TrainJob: Luke "Whispering" Smith a railroad detective assigned to stop a gang of train robbers.
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* PocketProtector: Smith hoots Leroy and Gabby Barton and is saved when a bullet is deflected by a harmonica in his pocket.
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* PocketProtector: Smith hoots shoots Leroy and Gabby Barton and is saved when a bullet is deflected by a harmonica in his pocket.pocket.
* SiblingsInCrime: At the start of the movie, Smith is pursuing the Barton brothers, Blake, Leroy, and Gabby; a trio of train robbers. Smith shoots and kill Leroy and Gabby, but Blake escapes,and later returns to take another pop at Smith.
* SiblingsInCrime: At the start of the movie, Smith is pursuing the Barton brothers, Blake, Leroy, and Gabby; a trio of train robbers. Smith shoots and kill Leroy and Gabby, but Blake escapes,and later returns to take another pop at Smith.
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* LastBreathBullet: Subverted. [[spoiler: Especially shocking in that it's the hero's former best friend gone bad who's trying to take him with him.]]
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''Whispering Smith'' is a 1948 American Western film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring Creator/AlanLadd as a railroad detective assigned to stop a gang of train robbers. The supporting cast includes Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall and Donald Crisp.
Luke “Whispering” Smith is a by-the-book, no-nonsense railroad detective who learns his friend, Murray Sinclair, has been fired from his railroad job. Seeking vengeance, Sinclair begins helping outlaw Barney Rebstock wreck trains. Now, Smith must find and bring his old friend to justice…at any cost.
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* PocketProtector: Smith hoots Leroy and Gabby Barton and is saved when a bullet is deflected by a harmonica in his pocket.
''Whispering Smith'' is a 1948 American Western film directed by Leslie Fenton and starring Creator/AlanLadd as a railroad detective assigned to stop a gang of train robbers. The supporting cast includes Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall and Donald Crisp.
Luke “Whispering” Smith is a by-the-book, no-nonsense railroad detective who learns his friend, Murray Sinclair, has been fired from his railroad job. Seeking vengeance, Sinclair begins helping outlaw Barney Rebstock wreck trains. Now, Smith must find and bring his old friend to justice…at any cost.
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* PocketProtector: Smith hoots Leroy and Gabby Barton and is saved when a bullet is deflected by a harmonica in his pocket.
