The Secret of Convict Lake

Glenn Ford plays a convict who breaks out of a 19th century Nevada prison in the company of several less handsome inmates. When they enter a snowbound California village, they find that all the men have left to prospect for silver; only the women remain. The village is known as Convict Lake because, years earlier, $40,000 of stolen money was hidden somewhere in the area. Town matriarch Ethel Barrymore seems to know where it is, but she ain’t talkin’. After recovering the money, the convicts are forced to shoot it out with the returning menfolk. All prisoners are rounded up by the law except for Glenn Ford, who has fortuitously been cleared of false charges, allowing him a fadeout embrace with costar Gene Tierney., Western melodrama set in California in 1871 where convicts led by Glenn Ford escape from prison and end up in a small town inhabited only by women while their menfolk are away on a mining expedition., Glenn Ford and escaped convicts take refuge in a settlement inhabited by Gene Tierney, Ethel Barrymore, Ann Dvorak and others. Zachary Scott, Cyril Cusack. Suspenseful story of early California, based on fact. Michael Gordon directed., Drama set in the 19th century, about a group of convicts on the run who seek shelter in an isolated community in California.