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Melodrama at its best, as sultry Ava Gardner gets involved with playboy George Raft and night-club jockey Victor McLaglen. Tom Conway, Florence Bates and Charles Drake co-star. Gardner hadn't yet reached the apex of her insolent sexuality (she looks close to plain in some scenes), and Raft plays, what else, George Raft. Whistle Stop is no masterpiece, but it intermittently sparks into life, generally when Victor McLaglen shows up, trying to lure Raft into a murderous scheme or taking revenge on his sneering boss.
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