The Whip Hand (1951)

Directors

William Cameron Menzies

Cast

Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr

The story

Journalist Matt Corbin is traveling through Wisconsin on a fishing trip and discovers a nearly deserted town where the few inhabitants are secretive and hostile. A shifty lodge owner named Steve Loomis warns Matt away, claiming that all of the region's fish mysteriously died years ago. The story makes Matt more curious, and his investigation uncovers a Soviet plot to poison the American water supply.

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