| 词条 | The Whip Hand |
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| name = The Whip Hand | image = Twhpos.jpg | image_size = | caption = original US half-sheet film poster | director = William Cameron Menzies Stuart Gilmore (fill-in)[1] | producer = Lewis Rachmil | writer = George Bricker Frank L. Moss Curt Siodmak (uncredited)[1] | story = Roy Hamilton | starring = Carla Balenda Elliott Reid | music = Paul Sawtell | cinematography = Nicholas Musuraca | editing = Robert Golden | released = {{Film date|1951|10|24|US|ref1=[1]}} | runtime = 82 minutes | country = United States | studio = RKO Radio Pictures | distributor = RKO Radio Pictures | language = English | budget = $376,000[1] | gross = }}The Whip Hand is a 1951 American film directed by William Cameron Menzies and starring Carla Balenda and Elliott Reid.[2] PlotJournalist Matt Corbin (Elliott Reid) is traveling through northern Wisconsin on a fishing trip and comes across a nearly deserted town where the few inhabitants left are secretive and hostile. A shifty lodge owner named Steve Loomis (Raymond Burr) warns Matt away, claiming all the fish died off mysteriously years ago. The story just makes Matt more curious, and his investigations soon uncover a Kremlin plot to poison the American water supply. Now he just needs to get back to the city alive. Cast
ProductionIn July 1949, RKO purchased the screen story written by Roy Hamilton. The film was originally set in New England, and was titled The Man He Found; the term "the whip hand" comes from horse racing, and is a metaphor for having the advantage or upper hand.[3] In the original story the villains were escaped German Nazis involved in a plot to hide Adolf Hitler, portrayed by Bobby Watson. When Howard Hughes viewed the completed film in November 1950, he announced that Nazis were no longer villains, Communists were, and ordered portions of the film reshot.[4][3] Wheeler W. Dixon writes that "The Whip Hand compels the viewer's attention through the sheer visual frenzy of its violent, aggressive camera work, coupled with its nightmarish, forced-perspective sets, which seems to overpower both the view and the film's protagonists."[5] Location shooting took place in Big Bear Lake as well as at RKO's ranch in Encino. ReceptionThe film lost an estimated $225,000.[1][3] References1. ^1 Jewell, Richard and Marton, Vernon (1982) The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House. p.260 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-whip-hand-116675|title=The Whip Hand (1951) - William Cameron Menzies - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie|website=AllMovie|accessdate=27 October 2017}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{AFI film|50369}} 4. ^Weaver, Tom {July 30, 2005) "Elliot Reid Interview" in Earth Vs. The Sci-Fi Filmmakers: 20 Interviews McFarland, p.325 5. ^Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia, by Wheeler W. Dixon pg. 83 External links
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