Whirlpool

film by Preminger [1949]

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discussed in biography

  • Otto Preminger
    In Otto Preminger: Challenges to the Production Code of Otto Preminger

    In the noir Whirlpool (1949), a scheming hypnotist (José Ferrer) frames a kleptomaniac (Tierney) for a murder he committed. Tierney then reunited with her Laura costar Andrews on Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), in which a violent policeman accidentally kills a suspect during an interrogation. Both pictures received…

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role of Ferrer

  • José Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac
    In José Ferrer

    …Arc (1948), Ferrer appeared in Whirlpool (1949), Crisis (1950), The Caine Mutiny (1954), The Shrike (1955), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), and The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). As a director, he cast himself in starring roles in The Great Man

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