Hellgate (1952 film)

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