The Secret of Convict Lake [SEP] cast member
The Secret of Convict Lake
The Secret of Convict Lake is a 1951 American black-and-white western film starring Glenn Ford and Gene Tierney. It was directed by Michael Gordon and produced by Frank P. Rosenberg, with music by Sol Kaplan. The film was a critical and commercial success. Ethel Barrymore and Ann Dvorak (in her final film role) co-starred. The story is fiction, based on legends of Convict Lake, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges of northern California.
Plot.
by nearby hatcheries. The biggest fish caught in Convict Lake was a 19 1/2-pound German brown, in 1956. More recently, a 14 1/2-pound brown trout was caught on October 17, 1993, which also was the biggest trout caught in the Eastern Sierra that year.
There is a 3-mile trail for hiking around the lake and a trail that connects the lake to the Sierra Crest.
In popular culture.
- The Western film "The Secret of Convict Lake" (1951) was largely based on the events