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Whirlpool is a 1950 [1] [2] American film noir thriller directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt, adapted from the 1946 novel Methinks the Lady... by Guy Endore. The film stars Gene Tierney , Richard Conte , José Ferrer and Charles Bickford , and features Constance Collier in her final film role.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Whirlpool's cast and setting continue the Rank Organisation's pursuit of the European – and specifically the West German – market. But a series of postcard studies of the Rhine, a glowering performance by Juliette Greco and a relentlessly stolid one by O. W. Fischer are almost all the production has to offer.
During a normal cycle, most Whirlpool-built wig-wag equipped washers will fill, start the motor, then engage the wash solenoid. Upon completion of the wash mode, the wash (agitate) solenoid will be turned off, which will allow the pump to drain the tub. After a minute or two, the timer will then engage the spin wig-wag which will cause the ...
Whirlpool (also known as She Died with Her Boots On and Whirlpool of Sex) is a 1970 exploitation thriller film written and directed by José Ramón Larraz, [a] in his directorial debut, and starring Karl Lanchbury, Vivian Neves and Pia Andersson. [3]
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Life's Whirlpool may refer to: Life's Whirlpool (1917 film) ...
During the 20th century, vocal fry in English was most commonly associated to intonational falls produced by male speakers of RP (Received Pronunciation). [4] Notable examples are the movie characters James Bond as played by Sean Connery , and Shere Khan , voiced by actor George Sanders who turned creaky voice into his trademark.
When the rattleback is spun in the "stable direction", also known as the weak reversal direction, friction and damping often slow the rattleback to a stop before the rolling instability has time to fully build. Some rattlebacks, however, exhibit "unstable behavior" when spun in either direction, and incur several successive spin reversals per spin.
In 2000 a whirlpool there caught student divers, resulting in fatalities. [14] A short-lived whirlpool sucked in a portion of the 1,300-acre (530 ha) Lake Peigneur in Louisiana, United States after a drilling mishap on November 20, 1980. This was not a naturally occurring whirlpool, but a disaster caused by underwater drillers breaking through ...