this film have be unavailable for so many year and so to finally have it on dvd be great . it be an unusual film noir from otto preminger and his favorite lead lady and gene tierney and who have star in his classic laura and whom have just complete her maternity leave when production begin on whirlpool . tierney give a fascinating performance a ann sutton and the beautiful wife of a prominent psychiatrist ( richard conte ) who suffer from kleptomania but who will do anything to conceal this . when hypnotist david korvo ( jose ferrer and very menace here ) and get her out of a jam with the local authority due to her shoplifting tendency and he decide to use it a a form of blackmail against her in order to use his hypnotize skill on her . he get her to perform all kind of shady deed and while succeed in get her conscious mind to suppress it . she be strangely draw to him and while her dumbfounded husband can come to only one conclusion that she and korvo be involve in an illicit affair . ann desperately try to prove her innocence and and in the process and lead all involve in a potentially deadly trap to stop korvo . there be echo of laura throughout and include the portrait that hang over the mantle at the home of the ill fat theresa randolph ( barbara oneill and best remember a scarlett mother in gwtw ) and and the final shootout . definitely an off beat movie of the noir genre and it be still a very watchable one . richard conte be a little unconvincing a tierney shrink husband and but he manage to pull it off and with efficient support from tierney and ferrer . can a man make a woman do thing she doesn not want to do . watch whirlpool and draw your own conclusion . a great addition to the fox film noir collection .