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A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.


“While the mob waits they match bullet for bullet… life for life!”
Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.

John Payne
Dan Ballard

Lizabeth Scott
Rose Evans

Dan Duryea
Fred McCarty

Dolores Moran
Dolly

Emile Meyer
Sheriff Wooley

Robert Warwick
Judge Cranston

John Hudson
Michael 'Mitch' Evans

Harry Carey, Jr.
Johnson

Alan Hale Jr.
Kirk

Stuart Whitman
Wicker
Silver Lode is a western film released in 1954 exploring themes of u.s. marshal, murder. Directed by Allan Dwan, it stars John Payne, Lizabeth Scott, Dan Duryea. Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.
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