Devil's Canyon (1953)
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Directors
Alfred L. Werker
Cast
Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt
The story
In 1897 Arizona, female outlaw Abby Nixon warns lawman Billy Reynolds that her accomplices Bud and Cole Gorman are nearby. Reynolds kills both men in a gunfight, but finds himself arrested for murder, convicted and sentenced to a desert prison known as Devil's Canyon. One of the prisoners there is a third Gorman brother, the ruthless Jesse, who intends to exact revenge.
Genres
Western, Western film, prison film
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