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The Whip Hand (1951)

1951 · Feature film · 82 min · dir. William Cameron Menzies

SCIENCE HARNESSED BY MADMEN TO WIPE OUT AMERICA'S MILLIONS!

  • Crime
  • propaganda film
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Synopsis

Matt Corbin, a vacationing magazine writer, takes a fishing trip to Minnesota, and stumbles across a lake in which all the fish have mysteriously died. The locals are tight-lipped about it, but Corbin learns that a group of former-Nazis-turned-Communists have purchased a lodge on an island in the middle of the fish-killing lake, and have built some kind of laboratory. Never one to pass up a chance to sell a story to a magazine, Matt decides to investigate. His only ally is Janet Keller, the…

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Details

Director
William Cameron Menzies
Writer
George Bricker
Composer
Paul Sawtell
Cinematography
Nicholas Musuraca
Studio
RKO Radio Pictures
Released
1951-10-01
Running time
82 minutes

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