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Dark Command (1940)
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
Updated May 11 2020
Cast
Walter Pidgeon
William 'Will' Cantrell
Claire Trevor
Miss Mary McCloud
Porter Hall
Angus McCloud
Roy Rogers
Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Joe, the Watchman
Crew
Grover Jones
Screenplay
Raoul Walsh
Director
Sol C. Siegel
Producer
Jack A. Marta
Cinematography
Victor Young
Music
W.R. Burnett
Novel
Lionel Houser
Screenplay
F. Hugh Herbert
Screenplay
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