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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.
A 1951 western film starring Glenn Ford as a convict who escapes to kill the man who framed him, but changes his mind after meeting his fiancee. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more.
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- Western
- Michael Gordon
- 1951-09-08
The Secret of Convict Lake is a 1951 American Western film starring Glenn Ford and Gene Tierney. Ethel Barrymore and Ann Dvorak (in her final film role) co-starred. The story is...
- 80 min
- 114K
- Classic Robb's Glenn Ford Channel
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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.