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Whirlpool is a american film of genre Drama directed by Otto Preminger released in USA on 13 january 1950 with Gene Tierney
Whirlpool (1950)
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Add to a movie listWhirlpool is a 1949 film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt, adapted from Guy Endore's novel Methinks the Lady. The film stars Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer and Charles Bickford, and features Constance Collier in her final film role. Due to anti-British statements Hecht had recently made regarding their involvement in Israel, UK prints of the film replaced his credit with a pseudonym, Lester Barstow.
The drama combines crime drama with psychological thriller (the heroine is controlled by a murderous hypnotist) and melodrama, as the central character's marriage is threatened.
Four years later, Conte starred in The Blue Gardenia, which has a strikingly similar plot, but replaces the psycho-analysis angle with a more straight-forward procedural storyline.
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Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney), the wife of a successful psychoanalyst (Richard Conte), is arrested for shoplifting. Ann is saved from scandal by smooth-talking hypnotist David Korvo (José Ferrer).Actors
Gene Tierney
(Ann Sutton)
Richard Conte
(Dr. William 'Bill' Sutton)
José Ferrer
(David Korvo)
Charles Bickford
(Lt. James Colton)
Barbara O'Neil
(Theresa "Terry" Randolph)
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