![Mystery Junction (1951)](/media/img/movie/poster/m/23/5e00c1e63f2c1c5e421e4076.jpg)
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
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