i hope that note set designer william cameron menzies who occasionally do direct such classic a thing to come and have howard hughes check already clear the bank before embark on the whip hand . such a film could only have come out of the paranoid year of the beginning of the cold war . if joe mccarthy could say there be 205 or 81 or 57 card carry communist in the state department and than why couldn not the red menace takeover a town in the land of a thousand lake and minnesota . magazine feature writer elliott reid go to minnesota for a fishing vacation go to the town of winnoga and find all the fish in the lake be dead and most of the town go . new people have arrive in the area and be very protective about their privacy . of course reid reporter instinct be arouse and pretty soon he like kevin mccarthy try to get of the area before the pod people get him . just like in shack out on 101 where the communist have set up shop in a hash house near the atomic testing site and the commie have set up in minnesota . reid only friend be elderly frank darien and carla ballenda and the sister of one of the scientist work in a laboratory on an island in the middle of the lake . from the fevered mind of howard hughes come this warning to the american movie go public that not only do we have to worry about the red conduct germ warfare on american and but theyre also pollute our stream . i be sure the sierra club be grateful for this film . raymond burr be one of the communist thug along with his sister lurene tuttle . burr and tuttle be the professional they be play it completely straight . all i can say be and wow .