Summaries

Vacationing writer investigates mysterious fish deaths in Minnesota lake. Discovers former Nazi-turned-Communist group developing biological weapons at lab with Soviet funding. Teams up with local doctor's sister to uncover their plan.

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.—Les Adams <[email protected]

A reporter on a fishing vacation stumbles into a town where all the local fish have mysteriously died and the population is either too afraid to talk or is downright hostile. After some digging, the reporter discovers that a secretive group of men has bought a local lodge and apparently turned it into some kind of mysterious scientific laboratory. The reporter and the sister of the local doctor set out to discover exactly what is going on up there.[email protected]

Details

Keywords
  • psychotronic film
  • reference to adolf hitler
  • cold war era
  • post world war ii
  • new england
Genres
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • War
Release date Sep 30, 1951
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Approved
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Valley, San Bernardino National Forest, California, USA
Production companies RKO Radio Pictures

Box office

Budget $376000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 22m
Color Black and White
Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1

Synopsis

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