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Il segreto di una donna

Titolo originale: Whirlpool
  • 1950
  • T
  • 1h 38min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
6,7/10
5027
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Gene Tierney and Richard Conte in Il segreto di una donna (1950)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to... Leggi tuttoA woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence.

  • Regia
    • Otto Preminger
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Ben Hecht
    • Andrew Solt
    • Guy Endore
  • Star
    • Gene Tierney
    • Richard Conte
    • José Ferrer
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,7/10
    5027
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Otto Preminger
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Ben Hecht
      • Andrew Solt
      • Guy Endore
    • Star
      • Gene Tierney
      • Richard Conte
      • José Ferrer
    • 71Recensioni degli utenti
    • 59Recensioni della critica
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    Gene Tierney
    Gene Tierney
    • Ann Sutton
    Richard Conte
    Richard Conte
    • Dr. William Sutton
    José Ferrer
    José Ferrer
    • David Korvo
    • (as Jose Ferrer)
    Charles Bickford
    Charles Bickford
    • Lt. James Colton
    Barbara O'Neil
    Barbara O'Neil
    • Theresa Randolph
    Eduard Franz
    Eduard Franz
    • Martin Avery
    Constance Collier
    Constance Collier
    • Tina Cosgrove
    Fortunio Bonanova
    Fortunio Bonanova
    • Feruccio di Ravallo
    Beau Anderson
    • Soldier
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Myrtle Anderson
    • Ann's Maid
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Gail Bonney
    Gail Bonney
    • Minor Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Lovyss Bradley
    Lovyss Bradley
    • Nurse
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Margaret Brayton
    • Policewoman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Sue Carlton
    • Elevator Girl
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Ruth Clifford
    Ruth Clifford
    • Nurse Eliott
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Clancy Cooper
    Clancy Cooper
    • First Policeman
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Oliver Cross
    • Minor Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Joan Dix
    • Minor Role
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    • Regia
      • Otto Preminger
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Ben Hecht
      • Andrew Solt
      • Guy Endore
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      Ben Hecht's anti-British statements in the late 1940s (due to their involvement with Israel) so angered the nation that the UK prints replaced his name with a pseudonym, Lester Barstow.
    • Blooper
      At the beginning of the film, it is obvious that the store's "glass" doors have no glass in them whatsoever.
    • Citazioni

      David Korvo: You were wise not to tell your husband, Mrs. Sutton. A successful marriage is usually based on what a husband and wife don't know about each other.

    • Versioni alternative
      In the movie "Laura" also directed by Preminger and starring Gene Tierney some of the same works of art appear. A standing Buddha is owned by Constance Collier's character in Whirlpool and by Waldo Lydecker in Laura. Waldo Lydecker also owns a collection of masks that are also owned by Jose Ferrer in Whirlpool.
    • Connessioni
      Featured in Fino all'ultimo respiro (1960)
    • Colonne sonore
      Again
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      Music by Lionel Newman

      Played at the hotel lounge

    Recensioni degli utenti71

    Recensione in evidenza
    7/10

    mostly run-of-the-mill with some hypnosis-babble, but strong acting all around

    Oh sure, Ann Sutton could pay for that pin - or for many other things - but there's something, probably, about the thrill of taking something, very non-chalant out of a store, especially as an unsuspecting adult white woman in the late 40's, and not getting caught. Is it Kleptomania? Perhaps. But the point is, at the start of Whirlpool, Ann gets caught at a department store stealing a pin, and she's in luck that David Korvo is there to help excuse her away - these are false charges after all, she has the money to buy a dozen of these pins, right - but there's a catch to her being let go: not so much for money, at least it seems at first. She tries to pay him, but for five thousand, p-shaw. No, he wants to get at her mind, to find what it is that made her do this thing... but it will lead to murder.

    Gene Tierney and Jose Ferrer play Ann and Korvo, and they're both excellent here. Even a one and a half note character (not quite one, maybe, almost two dimensional, if it tried) like Ann's husband Bill gets a solid performance out of Richard Conte, to the point where we really feel for their marriage, and see the conflict very plain as soon as Ann 'turns' on to her 'nothing's the matter' tone of voice to her husband after she comes home and tells the maid that there's something very wrong and she must speak to her husband soon as he gets home. Is she crazy? Has she been driven mad? She's no femme fatale really - she is in what seems to be a fairly happy marriage (though at one critical point she'll say otherwise in a very tense confessional). But she is flawed and interesting, and that helps.

    It's especially good that this character is so strong, as well as Korvo being an equally strong, conniving villain, and we know he's a villain from basically minute one but the fun is seeing how he does things like slip a glass with the lady's fingerprints into his jacket while she's away for a minute from the lunch table. But there's a couple of plot holes here that are jarring - one is more character-based and comes in the third act, it felt like a scene was missing that involved convincing a particular character to give Ann one more chance, and there was a connective tissue from the convincing to her not in prison - and I have to wonder how much they cut out of the book. It seems like a lot. Not to mention the notion of how completely tight the hypnosis can be, just how air-tight a plot can be (that we don't really see be suggested by the way) for Ann to go out in her car and get those records and then for that other thing to happen.

    Whirlpool isn't weak tea by any means, but I have to think Preminger, despite some clever camera angles and the usual flair for hardcore film noir as a director (the tension in that final scene is really terrific, especially how a character hides just until a certain moment) would have had some trouble without this cast. Thankfully, Tierney gives this character credibility and she makes her fragile, torn and frayed, and when she's in her hypnotic trances it's like she's walking on air. I even liked the one/two scene turn by Barbara O'Neil (Constance Collier also has some good lines). Not something to rush to see, but it's a fair follow-up for the director and star from Laura - more of a B-side if one were to screen them back to back
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    • Data di uscita
      • 28 aprile 1950 (Italia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(Studio)
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Twentieth Century Fox
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      • Black and White
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      • 1.37 : 1

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