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Whispering Shadows
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Just before his sudden death, a businessman accuses his son-in-law of embezzlement. His daughter is convinced of her fiancée's innocence and tries to clear his name and unmask the real villain and is aided by secret messages...from her dead father. Or are they? WHISPERlNG SHADOWS, a very rare occult creeper, can now be seen by the public for the first time since its release in 1921. lt is presented here in a new digital scan with an eerie and atmospheric new theatre organ score by Andrew E. Simpson.
BONUS: THE DEVlL'S ASSISTANT (1917) -- in which a physician enacts revenge on the woman he loves after she marries another by treating her exhaustion with maddening drugs. The fiIm depicts her descent into madness in a red-tinted trip to hell itself.
WHlSPERING SHADOWS is sourced from a preservation by the Library of Congress from the sole surviving 28mm print of this title. THE DEVlL'S ASSISTANT is sourced from a rare print in the coIlection of the USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving lmage Archive.
WHlSPERlNG SHADOWS (1921) - 68 mins
THE DEVlL'S ASSlSTANT (1917) - 23 mins
B&W/tinted - stereo - 91 mins - NTSC - not rated - region-free - 4:3 aspect ratio
Produced for video and scored by Andrew E. Simpson
DVD released by Undercrank Productions |
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