Whirlpool (1959)

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Whirlpool is a 1959 British crime film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Juliette Gréco and O. W. Fischer. It was written by Laurence P. Bachmann and Marcel Stellman, based on Bachmann's 1957 novel The Lorelei.

Production

The film was originally known as Lorelei. Juliette Greco's signing was announced in August 1958. The same month Rank stated Hardy Kruger would play the male lead. However, not long afterwards O.W. Fisher was cast in the lead. Fisher was then one of the biggest stars in Germany and this was his first English language film although he had meant to star in My Man Godfrey (1957) in the US. His fee was a reported £30,000.

Filming started 1 September 1958 and took place at Pinewood Studios and on location in the Rhineland including Koblenz and Cologne. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jack Maxsted.

Greco's sister and mother had spent the war in a concentration camp while Greco had been in a Paris prison. She said she "hated" the Germans but accepted a part in Whirlpool "because I wanted to kill that hate".

However Greco clashed with Fisher during filming, saying "I have never been so insulted in my life as I have by this man Fisher. I would like to slap him in the face and knock him flat." Fisher, who was Austrian and did not serve in the army during the war, said in response, "Perhaps Miss Greco does not like me because I am a dedicated actor not interested in behaving like a film star, as she is.

In London, Greco later refused to attend a reception arranged by the German embassy in honour of the film.

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