Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Whip Hand (1951)

Directed by William Cameron Menzies
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb

Atmospheric William Cameron Menzies thriller made at the height of Communist paranoia in America. Elliott Reid stumbles upon a small Wisconsin town that is really a Communist cell experimenting in germ warfare. Most of the film is a slow build-up of tension as Reid realizes something is not quite right in this town. Substitute aliens for Communists and you would have a fine sci-fi film.

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