{"id":1049,"date":"2009-12-01T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2010-04-05T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T16:11:31","slug":"comic-strip-review-whirlpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2009\/12\/01\/comic-strip-review-whirlpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Strip Review: Whirlpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blackmail, murder, brutality, manipulation: Otto Preminger&#8217;s <I>noir<\/I> world view is at its darkest and most compelling in <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2009\/12\/01\/comic-strip-review-sidewalk\/\"><I>Where the Sidewalk Ends<\/I><\/A> (1950) and <I>Whirlpool<\/I> (1949).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1050\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/whirlpoolstrip.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1049]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/whirlpoolstrip.jpg?resize=474%2C617\" alt=\"\" title=\"Whirlpool\" width=\"474\" height=\"617\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/whirlpoolstrip.jpg?resize=594%2C773 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/whirlpoolstrip.jpg?resize=230%2C300 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/whirlpoolstrip.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/whirlpoolstrip.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Review by Mark Stafford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\"><I>Film Noir Classics<\/I> brings together four classic titles from two masters of the genre: <I>Fallen Angels<\/I> (Otto Preminger, 1945); <I>Whirlpool<\/I> (Otto Preminger, 1949); <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2007\/12\/02\/night-and-the-city\/\"><I>Night and the City<\/I><\/A> (Jules Dassin, 1950) and <I>Where the Sidewalk Ends<\/I> (Otto Preminger, 1950). It is available now on DVD in the UK from the BFI. For more information on Mark Stafford, go to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hocus-baloney.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">hocus-baloney.com<\/A>. <\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackmail, murder, brutality, manipulation: Otto Preminger&#8217;s <I>noir<\/I> world view is at its darkest and most compelling in <I>Where the Sidewalk Ends<\/I><\/A> (1950) and <I>Whirlpool<\/I> (1949).<br \/>\n<I><B>Comic strip review by Mark Stafford<\/I><\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strip-reviews","tag-film-noir","tag-preminger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"By Mark Stafford","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-gV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1045,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2009\/12\/01\/comic-strip-review-sidewalk\/","url_meta":{"origin":1049,"position":0},"title":"Comic Strip Review: Where the Sidewalk Ends","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"December 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Blackmail, murder, brutality, manipulation: Otto Preminger's noir world view is at its darkest and most compelling in Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) and Whirlpool (1949). 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