Dark Command

Dark Command

22.2. 07:00
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94 minutes
1940
Drama / Romantic / Western
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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.

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1940
Drama / Romantic / Western

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.

Creators

Raoul Walsh

Cast

Joe Sawyer, Harry Strang, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ray Bennett, Roy Bucko, Tom London, Nora Bush, Jack Montgomery, Stanley Blystone, Richard Alexander, Lloyd Ingraham, Jack Low, Ernie Adams, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, Herman Hack, Glenn Strange, Ed Brady, Michael Miller, Henry Wills, John Wayne, Frank Hagney, Ferris Taylor, Walter Long, Porter Hall, Ethan Laidlaw, Bob Sáenz, Claire Trevor, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Marjorie Main, Raymond Walburn, Helen MacKellar, Trevor Bardette, Earl Askam, Hank Bell, Al Bridge, Budd Buster, Yakima Canutt, Bob Card, Horace B. Carpenter, Burr Caruth, Edmund Cobb, Tex Cooper, Harry Cording, Bobby Crandall, Marvin Davis, Art Dillard, John Dilson, Edward Earle, Betty Farrington, Robert Ferrero, Joseph Forte, Mildred Gover, Al Haskell, Edward Hearn, Howard Hickman, Jack Kirk, Mike Lally, Herbert MacGregor, Cactus Mack, Nelson McDowell, Joe McGuinn, John Merton, Dolly Nardon, Lawrence Osman, Russell Palmer, Harvard Peck, Dick Rich, Lee Riggin, Jack Rockwell, Clinton Rosemond, Tom Smith, Hal Taliaferro, Al Taylor, Ernest Tobey, Ethel Wales, Cecil Weston, Harry Woods, Bob Woodward
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