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Hellgate (1952 film)

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'Hellgate' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring Sterling Hayden. It was the second of three films Warren made for Robert L. Lippert as a writer/director.

Plot



Hellgate Prison is an aptly named facility in the desert where the worst criminals are sent. Hanley, a veterinarian and former Civil War soldier, is falsely accused and convicted of a crime. He is sentenced to this hellish place.

He immediately gets on the wrong side of Voorhees, a vicious guard, and Redfield, a mean convict. Hanley will need to fight his way out, particularly when the prisoners are afflicted with an epidemic of a spreading plague.

Cast



* Sterling Hayden as Gilman S. Hanley

* Joan Leslie as Ellen Hanley

* Ward Bond as Lt. Tod Voorhees

* James Arness as George Redfield

* Peter Coe as Jumper Hall

* John Pickard as Gundy Boyd

* Robert Wilke as Sgt. Maj. Kearn

* Kyle James as Vern Brechene

* Richard Emory as Dan Mott

See also



* Sterling Hayden filmography

References




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