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The Secret of Convict Lake is a american film of genre Western directed by Michael Gordon released in USA on 3 august 1951 with Glenn Ford

The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)

The Secret of Convict Lake
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Released in USA 3 august 1951
Length 1h23
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Western
Rating68% 3.4428153.4428153.4428153.4428153.442815

The Secret of Convict Lake is a 1951 American black-and-white western film starring Glenn Ford and Gene Tierney. It was directed by Michael Gordon and produced by Frank P. Rosenberg, with music by Sol Kaplan. The film was a critical and commercial success. Ethel Barrymore and Ann Dvorak (in her final film role) co-starred. The story is fiction, based on legends of Convict Lake, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of northern California.

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In 1871, six convicts escape from a Carson City prison. A posse loses them in a mountain blizzard, and after the posse turn back, the convicts continue on foot and one of the fugitives freezes to death. The five remaining are Canfield, Greer, Cockerell, Anderson and Maxwell. They make it to a lake called Monte Diablo, where five women live in a settlement while their men are away prospecting for silver. Granny is the elder, watching over Marcia, Rachel, Harriet and Barbara.

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