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Whirlpool

6.5/ 10

TMDB Rating

91

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1950

Release Year

98 min

Runtime

Thriller
Crime
Drama

Overview

The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.

Keywords

kleptomania
hypnosis
film noir
shoplifting
hypnotist
psychoanalyst

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Reviews(2)

7.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

March 15, 2014

7
7/10

A successful marriage is usually based on what a husband and wife don't know about each other. An interesting and divisive film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht (under the blacklist pseudonym Lester Barstow) and Andrew Solt. Adapted from the novel "Methinks the La

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

December 22, 2024

7
7/10

This might well be my favourite role for José Ferrer as he portrays the hypnotist charged with treating "Ann" (Gene Tierney). She's a bit of a kleptomaniac and both she and doctor husband "William" (Richard Conte) are determined to find out just what, if anything, is in her past and triggering this

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