The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
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Directors
Michael Gordon
Cast
Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore
The story
In 1871, six convicts escape from a Carson City prison. One of them freezes to death during a blizzard. The others—Canfield, Greer, Cockerell, Anderson and Maxwell—reach Lake Monte Diablo, where eight women live in a settlement while their men are away prospecting.
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Classical Western, Western, Western film
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