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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.
13 January 1895, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
17 July 1910, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
22 January 1878, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
24 March 1910, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
31 October 1902, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
8 January 1912, Santurce, Puerto Rico
19 November 1920, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1 January 1891, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1889, often given in error)
February 08, 2008
Directed with a healthy feel for his twisted characters by Otto Preminger.
October 23, 2007
Gripping throughout.
November 16, 2015
Ferrer is wonderfully sleazy as Korvo and makes the perfect foil for Tierney.
March 14, 2010
Very wry, very Viennese satire of psychoanalysis as bourgeois fad
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.
November 01, 2007
A daft premise does little to detract from the enjoyment of this tense, well-made murder mystery.
June 28, 2010
...a sporadically trashy, thoroughly absurd 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.
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.
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.