Dark Mountain

Dark Mountain

Dark Mountain

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Dark Mountain

"RUGGED ACTION and THRILLS!"

1944

0h 57m

5.3(11 votes)

Drama

Overview

A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.

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Paramount Pictures

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Robert Lowery

Robert Lowery

Don Bradley

Ellen Drew

Ellen Drew

Kay Downey

Regis Toomey

Regis Toomey

Steve Downey

Eddie Quillan

Eddie Quillan

Willie Dinsmire

Elisha Cook Jr.

Elisha Cook Jr.

Whitey

Ralph Dunn

Ralph Dunn

Chief Sanford

Walter Baldwin

Walter Baldwin

Uncle Sam Bates

Rose Plumer

Aunt Pattie Bates

Virginia Sale

Virginia Sale

Aletha Bates

Byron Foulger

Byron Foulger

Harvey Bates

Creative team

Directed by: William Berke
Written by: Maxwell Shane
Charles F. Royal

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