Whirlpool (1949)

19491h 37mdir. Otto PremingerUnited States of Americacrime filmfilm noir

With Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O'Neil, Constance Collier, Alex Gerry, Eduard Franz

Directed by Otto Preminger

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Whirlpool is a 1950 American film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt, adapted from the 1946 novel Methinks the Lady... by Guy Endore. 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.

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