It’s rare to encounter characters like Whispering Smith these days! Leslie Fenton directed Whispering Smith, with Frank Butler and Karl Kamb co-adapting the screenplay from a novel by Frank H. Spearman. The film features Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp, William Demarest, and Frank Faylen, alongside music by Adolph Deutsch and cinematography by Ray Rennahan. Railroad detective Whispering…