| Silver Lode | |
| Director: | Allan Dwan |
| Producer: | Benedict Bogeaus |
| Screenplay: | Karen DeWolf |
| Story: | Karen DeWolf |
| Starring: | John Payne Lizabeth Scott Dan Duryea |
| Music: | Louis Forbes Howard Jackson |
| Cinematography: | John Alton |
| Editing: | James Leicester |
| Studio: | Benedict Bogeaus Productions |
| Distributor: | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Runtime: | 81 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Silver Lode is a 1954 American Technicolor Western film directed by Allan Dwan and starring John Payne, Lizabeth Scott and Dan Duryea.
The film, with a similar plot to High Noon, tells the story of Dan Ballard (John Payne) and Rose Evans (Lizabeth Scott), who are about to be married on the Fourth of July when Marshal Fred McCarty (Dan Duryea) and his deputies ride into town looking for Ballard. McCarty accuses Ballard of having murdered his brother and has come to arrest him.
At first, the townspeople are on Ballard's 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.
In its review, the New York Times wrote, "The script by Karen De Wolfe was a complete misfire."[1]