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Whirlpool
Plagued by an overwhelming urge to shoplift, Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney) is helped out of a tight spot by David Korvo (Jose Ferrer). Soon afterwards, she is found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
22 January 1878, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
16 September 1919, New York City, New York, USA
May 26, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
February 6, 1922 in Hornell, New York, USA
6 October 1904, Manhattan, New York, USA
8 January 1912, Santurce, Puerto Rico
1 January 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 March 1906, Fayette County, Iowa, USA
17 July 1910, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
31 March 1896, Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
24 March 1910, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
31 October 1902, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
March 14, 2010
Very wry, very Viennese satire of psychoanalysis as bourgeois fadNovember 01, 2007
A daft premise does little to detract from the enjoyment of this tense, well-made murder mystery.October 23, 2007
Preminger's ambiguous relation to his characters and his sense of moral relativity have seldom been put to such haunting use.November 16, 2015
Ferrer is wonderfully sleazy as Korvo and makes the perfect foil for Tierney.October 23, 2007
There is no doubt that people will do strange things under hypnotic spell and that the techniques of hypnotism may be villainously employed. But you don't catch this fairly rational corner believing for one minute the hocuspocus that goes on.June 28, 2010
...a sporadically trashy, thoroughly absurd murder mystery.January 17, 2017
Whirlpool's stand-out scene, in which a somnambulant Gene Tierney incriminates herself ... uses the conventions of horror cinema as much as that of noir.February 08, 2008
Directed with a healthy feel for his twisted characters by Otto Preminger.October 23, 2007
It's a fine example of the way Preminger, on occasion, managed to deflect routine melodrama into something more personal and profound.October 23, 2007
Gripping throughout.