The Black Whip is a 1956 American Civil War Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Hugh Marlowe and Coleen Gray.

The film depicts the time as April 1867, when post-war derelicts, plunderers, and looters continue their crazed violence out west.

John Murdock (Paul Richards) is a notorious outlaw who leads the vicious gang known as the Blacklegs.

Armed with his signature black whip, he and his men invade a small town, looking to stir up trouble.

In between harassing the girls at the saloon and attacking the locals, the Blacklegs are plotting a bigger scheme: kidnapping the governor of Kentucky (Patrick O'Moore) and holding him for ransom.