Whirlpool

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Whirlpool

1949,

1h 37m,

Crime/

Drama

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90%

10 Reviews

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63%

500+ Ratings

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Tomatometer

10 Reviews

63%

Popcornmeter

500+ Ratings

Plagued by an overwhelming urge to shoplift, Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney) is helped out of a tight spot by David Korvo (Jose Ferrer). Unfortunately for Ann, Korvo is a conniving hypnotist who draws her into a web of deception and murder through his mind-altering abilities and frames her for his misdeeds. While Ann's psychiatrist husband, Bill (Richard Conte), believes that his wife didn't commit the crimes, Korvo's devious scheme makes proving her innocence quite difficult.

Geoff Andrew

Time Out

Oct 23, 2007

It's a fine example of the way Preminger, on occasion, managed to deflect routine melodrama into something more personal and profound.

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Bosley Crowther

New York Times

Oct 23, 2007

2/5

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.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Oct 23, 2007

Preminger's ambiguous relation to his characters and his sense of moral relativity have seldom been put to such haunting use.

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

Aug 6, 2020

7/10

A film that keeps me hooked for an hour and a half by combining police film noir and psychological thriller with a twisted plot about hypnotism, blackmail and murder. [Full review in Spanish]

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Josephine O'Neill

Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Mar 25, 2019

Jose Ferrer's insolent finesse turns a conventional melodrama into a fascinating; one-man show.

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Christopher Machell

CineVue

Jan 17, 2017

5/5

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.

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Ron P

Jul 17, 2018

This movie was very entertaining and a great 1950s mystery movie.

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Otto Preminger

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Gene Tierney

Ann Sutton

Richard Conte

Dr. William `'Bill'` Sutton

José Ferrer

David Korvo

Bruce Hamilton

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Ben Hecht

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Synopsis

Plagued by an overwhelming urge to shoplift, Ann Sutton (Gene Tierney) is helped out of a tight spot by David Korvo (Jose Ferrer). Unfortunately for Ann, Korvo is a conniving hypnotist who draws her into a web of deception and murder through his mind-altering abilities and frames her for his misdeeds. While Ann's psychiatrist husband, Bill (Richard Conte), believes that his wife didn't commit the crimes, Korvo's devious scheme makes proving her innocence quite difficult.

Director: Otto Preminger
Producer: Otto Preminger
Screenwriter: Ben Hecht, Andrew Solt
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 28, 1949, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 27, 2016
Runtime: 1h 37m

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