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1949 | 97 minutes | Rated NR
This peculiar 1949 thriller by Otto Preminger about a kleptomaniac (Gene Tierney) under the control of a Mabuse-like hypnotist (Jose Ferrer) hasn't much of a reputation in America, and the acting (which includes Richard Conte as Tierney's psychoanalyst husband) and cornball script (by Andrew Solt and Ben Hecht hiding under a pseudonym) help explain why. But the French enthusiasm for this moody and creepy melodrama, sparked mainly by Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard, isn't without defenses: Preminger's ambiguous relation to his characters and his sense of moral relativity have seldom been put to such haunting use. Based on a Guy Endore novel; with Charles Bickford, Constance Collier, and Fortunio Bonanova. By Jonathan Rosenbaum
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte and Jose Ferrer

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