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Hangman's Knot (1952)

Hangman's Knot poster
Directed by
Roy Huggins
Genre
Western film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 21m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Confederate soldiers who do not know the Civil War is over rob a Union gold shipment. A renegade posse then hunts them down.

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What happens

Hangman's Knot is a 1952 American Western film written and directed by Roy Huggins and starring Randolph Scott, Donna Reed and Claude Jarman. The plot concerns a group of Confederate soldiers, unaware that the Civil War has ended, who intercept a shipment of gold escorted by Union cavalry troops and are then pursued by a renegade posse. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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