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.
15 December 1901, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2 March 1906, Fayette County, Iowa, USA
1 January 1928, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 March 1896, Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA
12 January 1909, Ostergotland, Sweden
23 May 1924, Circleville, Ohio, USA
15 February 1929, USA
13 January 1895, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain
28 June 1914, Great Falls, Montana, USA
June 13, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
8 February 1907, South Carolina, USA
5 May 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 January 1891, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1889, often given in error)
February 6, 1922 in Hornell, New York, USA
22 January 1878, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
17 July 1910, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
May 31, 1894 in Redondo Beach, California, USA
28 May 1928, San Diego, California, USA
24 March 1910, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
13 October 1929, Redwood City, California, USA
April 16, 1898 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
16 September 1919, New York City, New York, USA
12 October 1924, Iola, Kansas, USA
February 17, 1900 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA
May 26, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
October 27, 1920 in New York City, New York, USA
14 September 1895, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
8 January 1912, Santurce, Puerto Rico
October 23, 2007
Gripping throughout.
February 08, 2008
Directed with a healthy feel for his twisted characters by Otto Preminger.
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.
March 14, 2010
Very wry, very Viennese satire of psychoanalysis as bourgeois fad
November 16, 2015
Ferrer is wonderfully sleazy as Korvo and makes the perfect foil for Tierney.
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.
October 23, 2007
Preminger's ambiguous relation to his characters and his sense of moral relativity have seldom been put to such haunting use.
June 28, 2010
...a sporadically trashy, thoroughly absurd murder mystery.
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.
