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Saturday Night Cinema: Whirlpool

Tonight’s Saturday Night cinema feature is Otto Preminger’s gripping 1950 film noir, Whirlpool. This taut suspense thriller was written by one of Hollywood’s most brilliant writers (an in my estimation, the best), Ben Hecht, the “Shakespeare of Hollywood,” and stars the astonishingly beautiful Gene Tierney. She is a magnetic as ever. Interesting bit of trivia: Due…