Satan's Cradle
NR
5.8
1949
1 hr 0 min
Western
Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier megalomaniac, shyster lawyer Steve Gentry, who has taken over a mining town. Gentry's confederate is dancehall girl Lil who is as deadly as she is beautiful. When itinerant preacher Henry Lane is beaten to a pulp by Gentry's goons, Cisco and Pancho move in for the kill.
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- Cast:
- Duncan Renaldo , Leo Carrillo , Ann Savage , Douglas Fowley , Byron Foulger , Claire Carleton
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Reviews
Some things I liked some I did not.
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Not even bad in a good way
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It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
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There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.
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