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The film stars Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer and Charles Bickford, and features Constance Collier in her final film role. Its plot follows the kleptomaniac wife of a wealthy Los Angeles psychoanalyst who, after a chance meeting with a hypnotist , is charged with a violent murder.
- $1.3 million
- January 13, 1950
- Otto Preminger
- David Raksin
Whirlpool: Directed by Otto Preminger. With Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford. A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.
- (4.6K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Otto Preminger
- 1950-01-16
Gene Tierney ... Ann Sutton: Richard Conte ... Dr. William Sutton: José Ferrer ... David Korvo (as Jose Ferrer) Charles Bickford ... Lt. James Colton: Barbara O'Neil ... Theresa Randolph: Eduard Franz ... Martin Avery: Constance Collier ... Tina Cosgrove
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Whirlpool (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Those Sick People Ann (Gene Tierney), wife of wealthy LA psychotherapist Bill (Richard Conte), has just been rescued by a stranger after being caught shoplifting, and after acting panicked before his receptionist, decides against telling him, early in Otto Preminger’s Whirlpool, 1949.
- Otto Preminger, Eli Dunn
- Gene Tierney
In its ideal form, Whirlpool (1949) by Otto Preminger would be a film noir about Gene Tierney's character Ann Sutton, and not the two competing schools of mental healing, as represented by the two men; Richard Conte, the psychoanalyst, obviously good; and Jose Ferrer, the hypnotist, obviously bad.
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...
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- Crime, Drama