---
title: 'Whirlpool (1950)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Otto Preminger'
released: '1950-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 98
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/whirlpool-1950'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042039/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Whirlpool (1950)

1950 · 98 min · Drama, Crime · United States


## Synopsis

Whirlpool is a 1950 American film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt, adapted from the 1946 novel Methinks the Lady... by Guy Endore. The film stars Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer and Charles Bickford, and features Constance Collier in her final film role. Its plot follows the kleptomaniac wife of a wealthy Los Angeles psychoanalyst who, after a chance meeting with a hypnotist, is charged with a violent murder.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Otto Preminger](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-preminger)
- **Producer:** [Otto Preminger](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-preminger)
- **Screenplay:** [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht)
- **Original Music Composer:** [David Raksin](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-raksin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Arthur Charles Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-charles-miller)
- **Editor:** [Louis R. Loeffler](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-r-loeffler)

## Cast

- [Sally Forrest](https://cinepixo.com/people/sally-forrest)
- [Larry Keating](https://cinepixo.com/people/larry-keating)
- [Harold Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-miller)
- [Constance Collier](https://cinepixo.com/people/constance-collier)
- [Barbara O'Neil](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-o-neil)
- [Jay Eaton](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-eaton)
- [Robert Foulk](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-foulk)
- [Gene Tierney](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-tierney)
- [Charles Bickford](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-bickford)
- [Richard Conte](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-conte)
- [Fortunio Bonanova](https://cinepixo.com/people/fortunio-bonanova)
- [Roger Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/roger-moore)
- [Helen Westcott](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-westcott)
- [Alex Gerry](https://cinepixo.com/people/alex-gerry)
- [Lawrence Dobkin](https://cinepixo.com/people/lawrence-dobkin)

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