Whirlpool
1949
In this intriguing 1950 film noir, Gene Tierney plays Ann Sutton, the wife of a succesful psychoanalyst, who is arrested for shoplifting. Scandal is averted due to the intervention of hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer) but he manipulates Ann as he knows she really is a shoplifter. This manipulation leads to deceit, blackmail .. Read more
| Starring | Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer, Richard Conte, Charles Bickford |
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| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Genres | Drama |
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Whirlpool
In this intriguing 1950 film noir, Gene Tierney plays Ann Sutton, the wife of a succesful psychoanalyst, who is arrested for shoplifting. Scandal is averted due to the intervention of hypnotist David Korvo (Jose Ferrer) but he manipulates Ann as he knows she really is a shoplifter. This manipulation leads to deceit, blackmail and murder.
| Starring | Gene Tierney, Jose Ferrer, Richard Conte, Charles Bickford |
|---|---|
| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Studio | BFI VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 33 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Released | DVD: 29 Mar 2004 Production year: 1949 |
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Neither the Juliette Greco Rank movie, nor the 1934 Jack Holt vehicle of the same name, this is the genuine article: a chunk of pure 20th Century-Fox late 1940s film noir, a highly entertaining melodrama directed by one of the past masters, the great Otto Preminger. Preminger even manages to make ace ham José Ferrer credible as a dubious hypnotist treating vivacious kleptomaniac, and quintessential cool Fox goddess, Gene Tierney. The score reunites Preminger with his Laura composer David Raksin, and the screenplay is by a group of left-wing intellectuals, including a blacklisted Ben Hecht using the pseudonym Lester Barstow. The subtext about mind control is, therefore, by no means accidental.
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The same themes and the same cool style as in Laura and Angel Face are at work in this portrait of the wealthy and... read more on Time Out
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Glossy Noir
A mixture of women's pictures, film noir and psychological thrillers of the period (1949). Gene Tierney the wife of a wealthy psychoanalyst (Richard Conte)... more
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Glossy Noir
A mixture of women's pictures, film noir and psychological thrillers of the period (1949). Gene Tierney the wife of a wealthy psychoanalyst (Richard Conte)... more
