Original sentence: The drama combines psychological thriller (the heroine is controlled by a murderous hypnotist) with melodrama, as the central character's distant marriage is threatened.Whirlpool (1949) is a drama film noir directed by Otto Preminger and written by Ben Hecht (under the blacklist pseudonym 'Lester Barstow'), adapted from Guy Endore's novel Methinks the Lady...  The film features Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, [[José Ferrer], and others
Edited sentence: Produced in 1949 from a Ben Hecht screenplay (under the blacklist pseudonym 'Lester Barstow') and bears a striking resemblance to another Hecht thriller, Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound.The script was adapted from Guy Endore's novel Methinks the Lady..., the film combines psychological thriller (the heroine is controlled by a murderous hypnotist) with melodrama, as the central character's distant marriage is threatened.Whirlpool is an Otto Preminger - directed (1949) film, considered film noir, starring Gene Tierney as the kleptomaniac wife of a psychoanalyst