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 sister of the local doctor who has been caught up in whatever those nefarious Commie-Nazis are up to. What they are up to, with Soviet financing, is the development of diseases to use in bacteriological warfare against the United States, starting right there in Minnesota.
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Cast of The Whip Hand
Carla BalendaJanet Keller
Elliott ReidMatt Corbin
Edgar BarrierDr. Edward Keller
Raymond BurrSteve Loomis
Otto WaldisDr. Wilhelm Bucholtz
Michael SteeleChick
Lurene TuttleMolly Loomis
Peter BroccoNate Garr
Lewis MartinPeterson
Frank DarienLuther Adams
Olive CareyMabel Turner
George BarrowsFederal Agent (uncredited)
Stanley BlystoneGuard on Pier (uncredited)
Eddie BordenMedical Experiment Patient (uncredited)
George BruggemanFederal Agent (uncredited)
William ChalleeGuard (uncredited)
George ChandlerJed (uncredited)
G. Pat CollinsNelson - Gate Guard (uncredited)
Tom DalyGerm Experiment Victim (uncredited)
Don DillawayFBI Agent McIntyre (uncredited)
Art DupuisSpeedboat Pilot (uncredited)
Douglas EvansCarstairs (uncredited)
Elizabeth FlournoySecretary (uncredited)
Robert FoulkGuard (uncredited)
Gregory GayeSweitart (uncredited)
Milton KibbeeProduce Company Proprietor (uncredited)
Mathew McCueMedical Experiment Patient (uncredited)
Lee MillerFederal Agent (uncredited)
Billy NelsonEd (uncredited)
Jamesson ShadeSheriff (uncredited)
Brick SullivanFederal Agent (uncredited)
Bob ThomFederal Agent (uncredited)
Frank WilcoxBradford (uncredited)
William Yetter Sr.German Pier Guard (uncredited)