Whistle Stop
- IMDb link: 0039101
- IMDb rating: 5.5 (1,464 votes)
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Director: Leonide Moguy
- Cast: Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen, Tom Conway, George Raft and others
- Release date: 25 Jan 1946
- Release year: 1946
- Runtime: 85 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: romantic rivalry, male male relationship, male female relationship, female sexual predator, mother son relationship, father son relationship, female jealousy, manipulative female, small town americana, rivalry between men
Plot:
Beautiful Mary returns from Chicago to her small hometown after many years, wearing a mink coat and carrying an expensive cigarette case. Her arrival causes long standing enmities to surface between two of her old boyfriends, loafing gambler Kenny Veech and debonair Lew Lentz, owner of a local nightclub. Their deep-seated animosity repeatedly results in antagonism and fights as they compete for Mary's affections. Kenny's friend Gitlo, a bartender in Lentz' club, enlists Kenny in an aborted plan to rob Lentz of $15,000 in profits from sponsoring a local carnival. Lentz retaliates by framing both men for murder.