Movie: Satan's Cradle

Top 9 Billed Cast

Duncan Renaldo
Duncan Renaldo

The Cisco Kid

Leo Carrillo
Leo Carrillo

Pancho

Ann Savage
Ann Savage

Lil

Douglas Fowley
Douglas Fowley

Steve Gentry

Byron Foulger
Byron Foulger

Henry Lane,The Preacher

Claire Carleton
Claire Carleton

Belle

Buck Bailey
Buck Bailey

Henchman Rocky

George DeNormand
George DeNormand

Henchman Idaho

Wes Hudman
Wes Hudman

Man shot by Rocky

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1949-10-06

  • Average

    4.2

  • Rating:

    2.1 starts
  • Tagline

    THE CISCO KID is out for MURDER!

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  • Languages:

    English
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