http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/89457/Secret-of-Treasure-Mountain/
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Synopsis
Pursued by a posse for damage he caused during a minor saloon brawl,
adventurer Robert Kendall accidentally comes across the hideout of
bank robbers Cash Larsen, Francisco Martinez and Stub McCurdy, who are
also on the run from the law. To avoid the posse, the four fugitives
flee into the mountains. When McCurdy's horse falls off a ledge,
taking the cash from the robbery with him and making it impossible for
McCurdy, who was wounded during the crime, to keep up with the others,
Larsen kills McCurdy to prevent him from revealing their identities to
the sheriff. That night, after Vahoe, an Apache Indian, runs off their
horses, the fugitives capture him and force him to take them to the
nearest shelter. Vahoe leads them into the forbidding mountain range
where they find two cabins set in a clearing on a rocky plateau. One
is inhabited by Edward Lancaster, a British gold prospector, and his
daughter Audrey, who welcome the strangers. The owner of the other
cabin is Juan Alvarado, a half-breed student of Indian lore, who shuns
the newcomers. Other members of Juan's household are Tawana, his
Apache housekeeper, and his aide, Vahoe, who secretly envies Juan
because Tawana harbors an unrequited love for him. Although Robert
tells Edward that they are cattlemen, Juan, after removing the bullet
from Martinez' arm, warns Audrey that the men are probably not what
they appear to be. When Larsen notices a unique gold cross hidden in a
drawer in Juan's house, Edward tells him that, according to Indian
legend, the Spaniards discovered a fortune in gold in the hills 200
years earlier. The Apache, who considered the mountain a holy place,
vowed to exterminate the foreign intruders. Before the Spaniards were
killed, however, they concealed the gold in a cave, which was then
sealed by a landslide. Edward explains that the Apache made three
crosses of gold, which, when combined, will reveal the gold's hiding
place. Juan's cross is believed to be one of the crosses. Later, when
Larsen makes improper advances to Tawana, Vahoe confronts him outside
the cabin. As Larsen is about to draw his gun, Robert jumps him,
sending the two men tumbling down the embankment. Their fall loosens
some rocks, thus allowing Robert to uncover another cross, which he
hides in his shirt. Thrown out because of Larsen's crude behavior,
Larsen and Martinez leave at daybreak. Later, while exploring the
countryside, Audrey and Robert find some unusual rock formations, and
in a rock archway, Robert notices that his body casts a shadow across
the area of Juan's cabin. Vahoe, who secretly has been following the
pair, informs Juan that they have discovered the key to the secret
mountain and insists that Audrey and Robert be eliminated. When Juan
balks, Vahoe tells him that he has been sent by the Apache chiefs to
insure that Juan keep his sacred oath to prevent white men from
finding the hidden treasure. To stop Vahoe and Tawana from exposing
his failure, Juan kills them both. Meanwhile, Robert and Edward are
preparing to dynamite the mountain when Larsen returns and claims that
Martinez died in a drowning accident. Having fallen in love with
Audrey, Juan tells her of the treasure and offers to share it with her
if she will marry him. Audrey, who is in love with Robert, hurries to
inform him and her father of Juan's discovery. After Larsen suggests
torturing Audrey to force Juan to reveal the location of the treasure,
Robert attacks him, and in the ensuing struggle, Larsen falls to his
death. When Robert promises Juan that he will no longer seek the gold,
Juan, seemingly in gratitude, invites Robert, Edward and Audrey to his
cabin and opens a secret panel that reveals the treasure vaults in a
cave below. Once in the cave, Juan pulls out a gun and says that the
secret of the gold must die with them. After Juan lights a dynamite
fuse, Robert knocks him off balance and escapes with Audrey and her
father. A series of dynamite blasts then seal Juan and the gold in the
cave for eternity.
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