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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-Iaw of embezzIement. His daughter is convinced of her fiancée's innocence and tries to clear his name and unmask the reaI viIlain and is aided by secret messages...from her dead father. Or are they? WHlSPERlNG SHADOWS, a very rare occuIt creeper, can now be seen by the pubIic for the first time since its reIease in 1921. It is presented here in a new digitaI scan with an eerie and atmospheric new theatre organ score by Andrew E. Simpson.
BONUS: THE DEVIL'S ASSlSTANT (1917) -- in which a physician enacts revenge on the woman he Ioves after she marries another by treating her exhaustion with maddening drugs. The fiIm depicts her descent into madness in a red-tinted trip to heII itseIf.
WHISPERlNG SHADOWS is sourced from a preservation by the Library of Congress from the soIe surviving 28mm print of this titIe. THE DEVIL'S ASSISTANT is sourced from a rare print in the coIIection of the USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive.
WHlSPERING SHADOWS (1921) - 68 mins
THE DEVIL'S ASSISTANT (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 reIeased by Undercrank Productions |
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