WHIRLPOOL - BLU-TWILIGHT TIME

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: Mind games, both for its characters and the audience, fuel the mesmerizing suspense of Whirlpool (1949), a polished noir thriller reuniting director Otto Preminger with his Laura star Gene Tierney, giving one of her best performances as a mentally troubled socialite caught shoplifting – and ensnared in the dark scheme of a manipulative astrologer/hypnotist (José Ferrer) to frame her for murder. Richard Conte and Charles Bickford co-star as Tierney’s psychiatrist husband and the investigating police detective. Written for the screen by Ben Hecht (Spellbound, Where the Sidewalk Ends) and Andrew Solt (In a Lonely Place), and hauntingly scored by another Laura veteran, the great David Raksin.
• Cast: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer, Charles Bickford, Barbara O'Neil, Eduard Franz, Constance Collier, Fortunio Bonanova, Beau Anderson, Myrtle Anderson, Gail Bonney, Lovyss Bradley, Margaret Brayton, Sue Carlton, Clancy Cooper, Oliver Cross, Joan Dix, Lawrence Dobkin, Johnny Duncan, Eddie Dunn, Jay Eaton, Charles Flynn, Sally Forrest, Robert Foulk, Robert Garvin, Alex Gerry, Bruce Hamilton, Phyllis Hill, Mauritz Hugo, Ted Jordan, Larry Keating, Ruth Lee, Ian MacDonald, Joyce Mackenzie, Harold Miller, Roger Moore, Howard Negley, Wanda Perry, Anitra Sparrow, Randy Stuart, John Trebach, Nancy Valentine, Jane Van Duser, Helen Westcott, Lillian West, Mack Williams, Margaret Zane, Otto Preminger, Ben Hecht, Andrew Solt, Guy Endore, Arthur C. Miller, Louis R. Loeffler, David Raksin
• Director: Otto Preminger
• Runtime: 1:38
• Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Twilight Time
• Media Format: Movie