a woman be take terrible advantage of by a hypnotist in whirlpool and a 1949 film star gene tierney and jose ferrer and and richard conte and direct by otto preminger . tierney be the wife of a successful psychiatrist who be catch shoplift . she be help by ferrer and a hypnotist who step in during her interrogation . he work with her to help her solve some of her problem and but he add some other hypnosis a well . this isn not a great preminger . the acting be good and but the script be weak . first of all and be it really possible to hypnotize someone that completely . i do not know . what i do know be that it absolutely against all ethic to talk about a patient with anyone as freely a conte do . since a good deal of the plot hinge on his breaking of that doctor patient privilege and the story doesn not hold up . gene tierney be her usual beautiful self . this be not and however and a role that play to her strength a an actress . she sympathetic but doesn not explore the range of the role enough . she more easily play an icy or feisty type . in those day and a actress near 30 and studio become less interested and and tierney find herself in role which she be not particularly right for or that waste her talent just to fulfill her contractual obligation . ferrer be excellent a the oily hypnotist and keep his voice even when he be say the most outrageous thing . conte be very good as well a tierney husband . all in all and this be interest to watch and but it could have be much well give the talent behind and before the camera .