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The Whip Hand is a 1951 American film directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring Carla Balenda and Elliott Reid. Plot. Journalist Matt Corbin (Elliott Reid) is ...
- $376,000
- Lewis Rachmil
The Whip Hand: Directed by William Cameron Menzies. With Carla Balenda, Elliott Reid, Edgar Barrier, Raymond Burr. 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.
- (693)
- Action, Adventure, Crime
- William Cameron Menzies
- 1951-10-01
The film's release title, The Whip Hand is derived from horse-racing terminology, meaning someone who has the upper hand, or is in control. RKO production files, contained at the UCLA Arts-Special Collections Library, and Hollywood Reporter , New York Times and Los Angeles Times news items add the following information about the production: RKO ...
The Whip Hand. Journalist Matt Corbin (Elliott Reid) is traveling through the Midwest on a fishing trip and comes across a nearly deserted town where the few inhabitants left are secretive and ...
- Dennis Schwartz
- Carla Balenda
- William Cameron Menzies
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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 ...
Less memorable is "The Whip Hand," a McCarthy-era sci-fi political thriller in which vacationing reporter Matt Corbin (Elliott Reid) uncovers a bunch of vicious commies who are out to poison the nation's water supply. It gets off to a great start and builds tension nicely only to give it all up with a silly propagandist ending.
