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The Secret of Convict Lake is a 1951 American Western film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore and Zachary Scott. The film was a critical and commercial success. The story is fiction, based on legends of Convict Lake, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of northern California.
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The Secret of Convict Lake: Directed by Michael Gordon. With Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore, Zachary Scott. In 1871 a convict escapes, with other prisoners, to kill the man that framed him, but has second thoughts after meeting the man's beautiful future wife.
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- Western
- Michael Gordon
- 1951-09-08
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Brief Synopsis. Jim Canfield, convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes a Nevada prison with several hardened criminals. He leads them to the small farming community home of the man who not only framed him, but committed the crime.
In 1871 a convict escapes, with other prisoners, to kill the man that framed him, but has second thoughts after meeting the man's beautiful future wife. Jim Canfield, convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes a Nevada prison with several hardened criminals.
After a group of convicts escapes from prison, they take refuge in the wilderness. While most of the crew are ruthless sociopaths, Jim Canfield is an innocent man who was jailed under false pretenses. When Canfield and his fellow fugitives reach an isolated farming settlement where the men are all away, it creates tension with the local women.
Michael Gordon’s The Secret of Convict Lake is an excellent Western noir crossover that pits a gang of fugitives looking for stolen loot against a small group of lonely but tough broads (their men are off gold prospecting) in a cozy, rustic settlement on Lake Diablo surrounded by Rocky Mountain harshness. Once the prison escapees make ...
