Whistling in the Dark Format:DVD 'The Lighthouse by the Sea'

'The Lighthouse by the Sea' (1924)

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His mother (Teresa Wright) is so busy that she hardly gives him any attention

William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play the fugitive saddlebums

Whistling in the Dark Format:DVD 'The Lighthouse by the Sea'When car trouble stalls his elopement, mystery writer Wally Porter ("Crime is my racket," he declares) doesn't know he's sharing drinks with gangsters who want to rub out a defiant brewer who won't pay for "protection." After he boasts he's "probably the world's greatest living authority on murder," timid Wally and his flirty fiancee become hesitant hostages in homicide planning. If the title and the premise are more familiar via its zippy 1941 remake