The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
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Glenn Ford plays a convict who breaks out of a 19th century Nevada prison in the company of several less handsome inmates. When they enter a snowbound California village, they find that all the men have left to prospect for silver; only the women remain. The village is known as Convict Lake because, years earlier, $40,000 of stolen money was hidden somewhere in the area. Town matriarch Ethel Barrymore seems to know where it is, but she ain't talkin'. After recovering the money, the convicts are forced to shoot it out with the returning menfolk. All prisoners are rounded up by the law except for Glenn Ford, who has fortuitously been cleared of false charges, allowing him a fadeout embrace with costar Gene Tierney. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Glenn Ford - Canfield
- Ethel Barrymore - Granny
- Ann Dvorak - Rachel
- Cyril Cusack - Limey
- Helen Westcott - Susan Haggerty
- Ruth Donnelly - Mary
- Jack Lambert - Matt Anderson
- Houseley Stevenson, Sr. - Pawnee Sam
- Max Wagner - Jack Purcell
- William Leicester - Luke Haggerty
- Ray Teal - Sheriff
- Gene Tierney - Marcia Stoddard
- Zachary Scott - Greer
- Barbara Bates - Barbara Purcell
- Richard Hylton - Clyde Maxwell
- Jeanette Nolan - Harriet
- Harry Carter - Rudy
- Mary Carroll - Millie Gower
- Charles Flynn - Steve Gower
- Raymond Greenleaf - Tom Fancher
- Bernard Szold - Bartender
- Tom London - Jerry
- Director(s):
- Michael Gordon
- Writer(s):
- Victor Trivas, Oscar Saul
- Producer(s):
- Frank P. Rosenberg
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