Whirlpool

Whirlpool

6.4IMDb Score
Released:1950-01-13
Duration:98 min
Director:Otto Preminger
Actors:Gene Tierney, José Ferrer, Richard Conte, Charles Bickford, Eduard Franz
Production:20th Century Fox

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.

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