Whistling Smith is a 1975 short documentary film directed by Marrin Canell and Michael J. F. Scott for the National Film Board of Canada. It was produced for the NFB's Pacificanada series, which aired on CBC-TV in early 1975.

The film is a revealing portrait of a tough cop with a big heart. Vancouver Police Department Sergeant Bernie "Whistling" Smith walks the beat on the city's Downtown Eastside, the hang-out of petty criminals and down-and-outers. His policing style is unorthodox; to many drug users and prostitutes, he's more than a cop—he's a counsellor and a friend. In the year that he's been in charge of this beat, crime has dropped by over forty per cent.

Accolades
Whistling Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short at the 48th Academy Awards. It also won the Canadian Film Award for Sound Re-Recording.

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External links

Watch Whistling Smith at NFB Web site

1975 films
1975 documentary films
1975 short films
Canadian short documentary films
Documentary films about law enforcement in Canada
English-language Canadian films
Documentary films about Vancouver
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
National Film Board of Canada short films
1970s short documentary films
1970s English-language films
1970s Canadian films
English-language documentary films