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* {{Blackmail}}: Saloon girl Dolly threatens to tell telegraph operator Paul Herbert's wife some juicy details about the two of them if he doesn't send some wires that could exonerate Ballard. When he protests that it isn't true, Dolly points out that while that is correct, nobody would believe him if she made those claims in the first place.
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* {{Blackmail}}: Saloon girl Dolly threatens to tell [[WesternUnionMan telegraph operator operator]] Paul Herbert's wife some juicy details about the two of them if he doesn't send some wires that could exonerate Ballard. When he protests that it isn't true, Dolly points out that while that is correct, nobody would believe him if she made those claims in the first place.
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''Silver Lode'' is a 1954 {{Western}} directed by Creator/AllanDwan and starring Creator/JohnPayne, Creator/DanDuryea, Creator/LizabethScott, and Creator/DoloresMoran.
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''Silver Lode'' is a 1954 {{Western}} film directed by Creator/AllanDwan and Creator/AllanDwan, starring Creator/JohnPayne, Creator/DanDuryea, Creator/LizabethScott, and Creator/DoloresMoran.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [=McCarty=] dies when a bullet he fired at Ballard ricochets off the church bell and strikes him in the heart instead.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [=McCarty=] dies when a bullet he fired fires at Ballard ricochets off the church bell and strikes him in the heart instead.
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* ClosetShuffle: Ballard hides not in Dolly's closet, but in the roof space above the closet, in order to hide from [=McCarty=]. The closet is the first place [=McCarty=] looks.
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* ClosetShuffle: PlayedWith. Ballard hides not in Dolly's closet, but in the roof space above the closet, in order to hide from [=McCarty=]. The closet is the first place [=McCarty=] looks.
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* WeddingDay: The events of the film take place on Dan Ballard and Rose Evans' wedding day.
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* WeddingDay: WeddingSmashers: The events of the film take place on begins with Dan Ballard and Rose Evans' wedding day.being interrupted by [=McCarty=] and his men coming to arrest Ballard.
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''Silver Lode'' is a 1954 {{Western}} directed by Creator/AllanDwan and starring Creator/JohnPayne, Creator/DanDuryea, Creator/LizabethScott, and Creator/DoloresMoran.
On the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays Fourth of July]], the wedding day of Dan Ballard (Payne) and Rose Evans (Scott), four armed men ride into town. Their leader (Duryea) tells the townspeople that he's a US Marshal with a warrant for Ballard's arrest. The charge is murder and theft. The townspeople react with disbelief and distrust at these strangers riding into town with accusations, as Ballard is a well-respected member of the community. But then again, he did arrive in town only two years ago, and he had a large amount of money when he did...
The plot bears more than a passing resemblance to the much more famous Western ''Film/HighNoon'', which was released two years earlier in 1952. Both films deal with a man in a small town losing the support of the townspeople, and both films play out in (roughly) RealTime. ''High Noon'' has been widely interpreted as an allegory for [[RedScare McCarthyism]]; the makers of ''Silver Lode'' apparently decided that ''High Noon'' was too subtle and named the main antagonist [=McCarty=].
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!!Provides examples of:
* AnAesop: Mob justice is terrible, and so is Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: [=McCarty=] quotes "an eye for an eye" to Reverend Field, who counters that TurnTheOtherCheek is also in ''Literature/TheBible''.
* BigBad: Fred [=McCarty=], the leader of the group of men riding into Silver Lode looking for Dan Ballard, is the main antagonist and directly or indirectly responsible for all the bad things that happen in the movie.
* {{Blackmail}}: Saloon girl Dolly threatens to tell telegraph operator Paul Herbert's wife some juicy details about the two of them if he doesn't send some wires that could exonerate Ballard. When he protests that it isn't true, Dolly points out that while that is correct, nobody would believe him if she made those claims in the first place.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Ballard shoots a gun out of Mitch Evans' hand, which puts a strain on their relationship as future brothers-in-law.
* CassandraTruth: Ballard maintains his innocence, but the townspeople gradually turn against him and start believing [=McCarty=]'s account of the events instead.
* ClearMyName: Ballard spends the entire movie trying to prove that he's innocent of the crimes [=McCarty=] is accusing him of.
* CloseKnitCommunity: Silver Lode starts out like this; the townspeople immediately side with Ballard when [=McCarty=] comes with accusations, and quite a few of them grab their guns to defend him from the outsiders. Unfortunately, it doesn't take much for them to turn on him, which is facilitated by Ballard being a relative outsider who has only lived there for two years.
* ClosetShuffle: Ballard hides not in Dolly's closet, but in the roof space above the closet, in order to hide from [=McCarty=]. The closet is the first place [=McCarty=] looks.
* CutPhoneLines: Ballard asks telegraph operator Paul Herbert to send wires to California to confirm or contradict [=McCarty=]'s accusations, but the lines are down. It is later revealed that [=McCarty=]'s men cut the telegraph lines.
* ExactWords: Ballard calls [=McCarty=] a liar when accused of shooting the latter's brother in the back. He later clarifies to Rose that he really did kill [=McCarty=]'s brother, but he didn't shoot him in the back.
* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The entire film takes place over the course of a single day, in near-enough real time.
* ForgedMessage: Rose and Dolly pressure telegraph operator Paul Herbert into writing a fake telegram response declaring Ballard's innocence and [=McCarty=]'s guilt, deeming that they don't have time to wait for a genuine reply.
* FrameUp: [=McCarty=] frames Ballard for murder and theft by forging a warrant, and later frames him for additional murders by making it look like Ballard killed people [=McCarty=] himself killed.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: {{Inverted|Trope}} in the sense that an innocent party is exonerated by dishonest means. Rose and Dolly use a fake telegram from Discovery, California to "prove" Ballard's innocence and [=McCarty=]'s guilt. A genuine telegram which indeed confirms this is later received.
* GoodShepherd: Reverend Field. He makes several attempts at mediating and de-escalating the situation, though he tends to be ignored, and grants Ballard refuge in the church when the townspeople are looking to kill him.
* GunsAkimbo: Ballard briefly uses this for holding a large number of people at gunpoint at close range at the same time. He tucks one of them away when he makes a run for it, only using one gun at a time while firing.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Ballard gradually transforms into this over the course of the movie. The townspeople initially side with Ballard as they know and trust him, being skeptical or outright distrustful of [=McCarty=] and his accusations. As further events and details seemingly corroborate [=McCarty=]'s account however, they turn on Ballard. By the end, only his ex Dolly and his fiancée Rose remain on his side.
* HesDeadJim: Johnson is lying motionless on the ground after being shot. Ballard says to ask Johnson who shot him, to which he is told "This man is dead."
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [=McCarty=] dies when a bullet he fired at Ballard ricochets off the church bell and strikes him in the heart instead.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Dolly, the local saloon girl and an old flame of Ballard's, ends up the only person besides his wife-to-be who doesn't turn against him.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: [=McCarty=] isn't a Marshal, and consequently his companions aren't deputies, either.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Says [=McCarty=] to Johnson: "Johnson, you worry me. The way Williams used to worry me." We later find out that [=McCarty=] killed Williams, but the implication was pretty clear right away.
* InTheBack: [=McCarty=] accuses Ballard of shooting his brother in the back and stealing his money. Ballard points out in private that [=McCarty=] knows full well that Ballard won that money in a game of cards and that [=McCarty=]'s brother drew first.
* ItGetsEasier: Ballard references this concept early on when Mitch suggests using violence against [=McCarty=].
-->"You kill one man, it's not so hard to kill a second one. Third one's easy."
* JustInTime: [=McCarty=] has Ballard cornered, with all the townspeople standing by... and then Rose shows up with a (forged) telegram exonerating Ballard and implicating [=McCarty=], turning the townspeople against [=McCarty=].
* KillingInSelfDefense: Two of [=McCarty=]'s men follow Ballard and try to kill him when he tries to flee, and they end up shot dead in return.
* LookingBusy: Ballard avoids recognition by carrying a barrel and using it to obscure his face. Nobody disturbs him.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ballard (and the townspeople who support him) fears that he'll be killed in an "escape attempt" if he follows [=McCarty=] to Discovery, California (where the warrant for his arrest was issued).
* MistakenForMurderer: [=McCarty=] has shot Johnson and Sheriff Wooley, while only getting grazed himself. Ballard picks up Johnson's and [=McCarty=]'s guns, at which point the townspeople arrive and naturally conclude that Ballard shot all three of them. As both Johnson and Sheriff Wooley were fatally wounded, they cannot set the record straight.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [=McCarty=] tells Ballard that he wants all Ballard's assets, or he'll kill him. Ballard suspects he'll kill him regardless.
* TheOner: An uninterrupted shot lasting nearly a full minute following Ballard through the town on his way to the telegraph office as he does his best to avoid detection by the townspeople.
* ThePlace: The title is the name of the town.
* {{Posse}}: Twice.
** Sheriff Wooley swears in a volunteer posse, ostensibly to make sure that Ballard doesn't escape during the ride to Discovery, California, though actually to keep an eye on [=McCarty=] to make sure that doesn't try anything.
** [=McCarty=] eventually deputizes every man in town to search for Ballard house-by-house.
* RealTime: Near-enough. The entire eighty-minute movie plays out during a single day, with no appreciable change in the time of day evident from the lighting or other factors.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: All the local authority figures--Sheriff Wooley, Judge Cranston, and Reverend Field--are helpful and willing to listen to reason. It's the townspeople and [=McCarty=] and his men who cause trouble for Ballard.
* RightUnderTheirNoses: Ballard manages to sneak past everyone looking for him in the middle of the town simply by carrying a barrel over his shoulder such that his face is obscured.
* SeekingSanctuary: After being wounded in the shoulder and depleting his ammunition, Ballard heads for the church, where Reverend Field opens the door and lets him in without a word. The townspeople, led by [=McCarty=], do not respect the sanctuary and enter the church against Reverend Field's objections.
* ShamingTheMob: Rose makes several attempts to shame the townspeople for turning on Ballard, but it doesn't work until Ballard himself chews them out after the truth has been revealed.
-->"You're sorry? A moment ago, you wanted to kill me. You forced me to kill to defend myself, to save my own life. You wouldn't believe me, you wouldn't believe what I said. A man's life can hang in the balance, on a piece of paper. And you're sorry!"
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The townspeople gradually descend into a mob looking to kill Ballard as suspicion against him mounts.
* TrailOfBlood: When Ballard is taking refuge in the church, his pursuers notice a trail of blood leading up to the bell tower where he's hiding.
* USMarshal: [=McCarty=] claims to be one of these, and has the papers to back it up. He's lying, and the papers are forged.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [=McCarty=] gradually turns into this over the course of the movie. The townspeople initially side with Ballard as they know and trust him, being skeptical or outright distrustful of [=McCarty=] and his accusations. As further events and details seemingly corroborate [=McCarty=]'s account however, they turn on Ballard. By the end, [=McCarty=] is leading an angry mob intent on killing Ballard.
* WeddingDay: The events of the film take place on Dan Ballard and Rose Evans' wedding day.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: [=McCarty=] and his men arrive on Ballard's wedding day, prepared to take him dead or alive.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Short on options, Ballard seeks the help of the only person besides his fiancée Rose who stands by him: his ex Dolly. Matters are complicated by the fact that she still has feelings for him, whereas he doesn't have feelings for her--this all takes place on the day of his wedding to another woman, and Dolly is jealous.
* YouKilledMyFather: Ballard killed [=McCarty=]'s brother during a poker game two years previously. Naturally, Ballard's and [=McCarty=]'s accounts of how it all went down differ considerably.
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On the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays Fourth of July]], the wedding day of Dan Ballard (Payne) and Rose Evans (Scott), four armed men ride into town. Their leader (Duryea) tells the townspeople that he's a US Marshal with a warrant for Ballard's arrest. The charge is murder and theft. The townspeople react with disbelief and distrust at these strangers riding into town with accusations, as Ballard is a well-respected member of the community. But then again, he did arrive in town only two years ago, and he had a large amount of money when he did...
The plot bears more than a passing resemblance to the much more famous Western ''Film/HighNoon'', which was released two years earlier in 1952. Both films deal with a man in a small town losing the support of the townspeople, and both films play out in (roughly) RealTime. ''High Noon'' has been widely interpreted as an allegory for [[RedScare McCarthyism]]; the makers of ''Silver Lode'' apparently decided that ''High Noon'' was too subtle and named the main antagonist [=McCarty=].
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!!Provides examples of:
* AnAesop: Mob justice is terrible, and so is Senator UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: [=McCarty=] quotes "an eye for an eye" to Reverend Field, who counters that TurnTheOtherCheek is also in ''Literature/TheBible''.
* BigBad: Fred [=McCarty=], the leader of the group of men riding into Silver Lode looking for Dan Ballard, is the main antagonist and directly or indirectly responsible for all the bad things that happen in the movie.
* {{Blackmail}}: Saloon girl Dolly threatens to tell telegraph operator Paul Herbert's wife some juicy details about the two of them if he doesn't send some wires that could exonerate Ballard. When he protests that it isn't true, Dolly points out that while that is correct, nobody would believe him if she made those claims in the first place.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Ballard shoots a gun out of Mitch Evans' hand, which puts a strain on their relationship as future brothers-in-law.
* CassandraTruth: Ballard maintains his innocence, but the townspeople gradually turn against him and start believing [=McCarty=]'s account of the events instead.
* ClearMyName: Ballard spends the entire movie trying to prove that he's innocent of the crimes [=McCarty=] is accusing him of.
* CloseKnitCommunity: Silver Lode starts out like this; the townspeople immediately side with Ballard when [=McCarty=] comes with accusations, and quite a few of them grab their guns to defend him from the outsiders. Unfortunately, it doesn't take much for them to turn on him, which is facilitated by Ballard being a relative outsider who has only lived there for two years.
* ClosetShuffle: Ballard hides not in Dolly's closet, but in the roof space above the closet, in order to hide from [=McCarty=]. The closet is the first place [=McCarty=] looks.
* CutPhoneLines: Ballard asks telegraph operator Paul Herbert to send wires to California to confirm or contradict [=McCarty=]'s accusations, but the lines are down. It is later revealed that [=McCarty=]'s men cut the telegraph lines.
* ExactWords: Ballard calls [=McCarty=] a liar when accused of shooting the latter's brother in the back. He later clarifies to Rose that he really did kill [=McCarty=]'s brother, but he didn't shoot him in the back.
* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: The entire film takes place over the course of a single day, in near-enough real time.
* ForgedMessage: Rose and Dolly pressure telegraph operator Paul Herbert into writing a fake telegram response declaring Ballard's innocence and [=McCarty=]'s guilt, deeming that they don't have time to wait for a genuine reply.
* FrameUp: [=McCarty=] frames Ballard for murder and theft by forging a warrant, and later frames him for additional murders by making it look like Ballard killed people [=McCarty=] himself killed.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: {{Inverted|Trope}} in the sense that an innocent party is exonerated by dishonest means. Rose and Dolly use a fake telegram from Discovery, California to "prove" Ballard's innocence and [=McCarty=]'s guilt. A genuine telegram which indeed confirms this is later received.
* GoodShepherd: Reverend Field. He makes several attempts at mediating and de-escalating the situation, though he tends to be ignored, and grants Ballard refuge in the church when the townspeople are looking to kill him.
* GunsAkimbo: Ballard briefly uses this for holding a large number of people at gunpoint at close range at the same time. He tucks one of them away when he makes a run for it, only using one gun at a time while firing.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: Ballard gradually transforms into this over the course of the movie. The townspeople initially side with Ballard as they know and trust him, being skeptical or outright distrustful of [=McCarty=] and his accusations. As further events and details seemingly corroborate [=McCarty=]'s account however, they turn on Ballard. By the end, only his ex Dolly and his fiancée Rose remain on his side.
* HesDeadJim: Johnson is lying motionless on the ground after being shot. Ballard says to ask Johnson who shot him, to which he is told "This man is dead."
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [=McCarty=] dies when a bullet he fired at Ballard ricochets off the church bell and strikes him in the heart instead.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Dolly, the local saloon girl and an old flame of Ballard's, ends up the only person besides his wife-to-be who doesn't turn against him.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: [=McCarty=] isn't a Marshal, and consequently his companions aren't deputies, either.
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Says [=McCarty=] to Johnson: "Johnson, you worry me. The way Williams used to worry me." We later find out that [=McCarty=] killed Williams, but the implication was pretty clear right away.
* InTheBack: [=McCarty=] accuses Ballard of shooting his brother in the back and stealing his money. Ballard points out in private that [=McCarty=] knows full well that Ballard won that money in a game of cards and that [=McCarty=]'s brother drew first.
* ItGetsEasier: Ballard references this concept early on when Mitch suggests using violence against [=McCarty=].
-->"You kill one man, it's not so hard to kill a second one. Third one's easy."
* JustInTime: [=McCarty=] has Ballard cornered, with all the townspeople standing by... and then Rose shows up with a (forged) telegram exonerating Ballard and implicating [=McCarty=], turning the townspeople against [=McCarty=].
* KillingInSelfDefense: Two of [=McCarty=]'s men follow Ballard and try to kill him when he tries to flee, and they end up shot dead in return.
* LookingBusy: Ballard avoids recognition by carrying a barrel and using it to obscure his face. Nobody disturbs him.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Ballard (and the townspeople who support him) fears that he'll be killed in an "escape attempt" if he follows [=McCarty=] to Discovery, California (where the warrant for his arrest was issued).
* MistakenForMurderer: [=McCarty=] has shot Johnson and Sheriff Wooley, while only getting grazed himself. Ballard picks up Johnson's and [=McCarty=]'s guns, at which point the townspeople arrive and naturally conclude that Ballard shot all three of them. As both Johnson and Sheriff Wooley were fatally wounded, they cannot set the record straight.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: [=McCarty=] tells Ballard that he wants all Ballard's assets, or he'll kill him. Ballard suspects he'll kill him regardless.
* TheOner: An uninterrupted shot lasting nearly a full minute following Ballard through the town on his way to the telegraph office as he does his best to avoid detection by the townspeople.
* ThePlace: The title is the name of the town.
* {{Posse}}: Twice.
** Sheriff Wooley swears in a volunteer posse, ostensibly to make sure that Ballard doesn't escape during the ride to Discovery, California, though actually to keep an eye on [=McCarty=] to make sure that doesn't try anything.
** [=McCarty=] eventually deputizes every man in town to search for Ballard house-by-house.
* RealTime: Near-enough. The entire eighty-minute movie plays out during a single day, with no appreciable change in the time of day evident from the lighting or other factors.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: All the local authority figures--Sheriff Wooley, Judge Cranston, and Reverend Field--are helpful and willing to listen to reason. It's the townspeople and [=McCarty=] and his men who cause trouble for Ballard.
* RightUnderTheirNoses: Ballard manages to sneak past everyone looking for him in the middle of the town simply by carrying a barrel over his shoulder such that his face is obscured.
* SeekingSanctuary: After being wounded in the shoulder and depleting his ammunition, Ballard heads for the church, where Reverend Field opens the door and lets him in without a word. The townspeople, led by [=McCarty=], do not respect the sanctuary and enter the church against Reverend Field's objections.
* ShamingTheMob: Rose makes several attempts to shame the townspeople for turning on Ballard, but it doesn't work until Ballard himself chews them out after the truth has been revealed.
-->"You're sorry? A moment ago, you wanted to kill me. You forced me to kill to defend myself, to save my own life. You wouldn't believe me, you wouldn't believe what I said. A man's life can hang in the balance, on a piece of paper. And you're sorry!"
* TorchesAndPitchforks: The townspeople gradually descend into a mob looking to kill Ballard as suspicion against him mounts.
* TrailOfBlood: When Ballard is taking refuge in the church, his pursuers notice a trail of blood leading up to the bell tower where he's hiding.
* USMarshal: [=McCarty=] claims to be one of these, and has the papers to back it up. He's lying, and the papers are forged.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [=McCarty=] gradually turns into this over the course of the movie. The townspeople initially side with Ballard as they know and trust him, being skeptical or outright distrustful of [=McCarty=] and his accusations. As further events and details seemingly corroborate [=McCarty=]'s account however, they turn on Ballard. By the end, [=McCarty=] is leading an angry mob intent on killing Ballard.
* WeddingDay: The events of the film take place on Dan Ballard and Rose Evans' wedding day.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: [=McCarty=] and his men arrive on Ballard's wedding day, prepared to take him dead or alive.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Short on options, Ballard seeks the help of the only person besides his fiancée Rose who stands by him: his ex Dolly. Matters are complicated by the fact that she still has feelings for him, whereas he doesn't have feelings for her--this all takes place on the day of his wedding to another woman, and Dolly is jealous.
* YouKilledMyFather: Ballard killed [=McCarty=]'s brother during a poker game two years previously. Naturally, Ballard's and [=McCarty=]'s accounts of how it all went down differ considerably.
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