Silver Lode (film)

Silver Lode is a color 1954 western film directed by Allan Dwan. It was filmed in Technicolor and released by RKO.

At first, the townspeople are on Ballards side, but gradually they turn against him, especially when they believe that he has killed the town sheriff Emile Meyer. Ballard tries to prove his innocence and expose McCarty who appears to be a veiled reference to Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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