Whirlpool (Fox Film Noir)
by Otto Preminger
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Actor: Barbara O'Neil, Charles Bickford, Gene Tierney, Jos? Ferrer, Richard ConteDirector: Otto Preminger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Whirlpool (Fox Film Noir)
Movie Review: OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 14
Summary: 4 Stars
***1/2 1949. WHIRLPOOL, based on the Guy Endore novel, was produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Ann Sutton, the wife of a well-known psychoanalyst, is kleptomaniac but doesn't dare to speak about it with her husband. She prefers to trust Dr. Korvo, a swindler who'll take advantage of her. Although this film is a minor entry in the filmography of Otto Preminger, it nevertheless delivers its share of pleasure to the curious movie lover. First of all, the performance of Jos? Ferrer as David Korvo is really enjoyable, the character calling to our mind the souvenir of Waldo Laura (Fox Film Noir) Lydecker because of his cynical and venomous slickness. I also liked a lot the last scenes of WHIRLPOOL, though highly improbable, involving a self-hypnotized Korvo who's bleeding to death but still grinning. In summary, this DVD is a minor Preminger but a major addition to your library. Recommended.
Summary of Whirlpool (Fox Film Noir)
Laura will always be director Otto Preminger's most beloved movie, but he gets closer to the essence of film noir in this fascinatingly slippery item about a psychiatrist's wife whose weakness for kleptomania makes her prey to an oily hypnotist, con artist, and manipulator par excellence. The fashion-plate wife (dresses, robes, and peignoirs by Oleg Cassini) is played by Laura herself, Gene Tierney. The mellifluous conniver is Jose Ferrer, coming off like the illegitimate son of Waldo Lydecker ("I'm so glad you're here--you make Tina's party seem an almost human event"). Among other things, Ferrer would probably like to get Tierney into bed, and a good many people--including Richard Conte as the caring husband--come to believe he has. But that's not the extent of his ambitions, and before long Tierney has been framed for a murder of convenience to clear up another bit of messiness in the cad's career. Whirlpool's mise-en-sc?ne has a sinuous fluidity and subtle play of light and shadow (it was among the last films shot by that master of black-and-white, Arthur C. Miller), and the complexly structured screenplay--by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt--takes us by surprise in reel after reel. There's nothing redeeming about Ferrer's character (except how much pleasure his villainy affords), but Preminger doesn't really side with any of the characters or permit our facile identification with anyone. Different parts of the movie are dominated by each of the key figures, including police detective Charles Bickford, and we keep learning there's more to each of them than we initially assumed. Whirlpool's a good title for it. Dive in. --Richard T. JamesonThe wife of a psycho-analyst 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.
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