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Movie / Dark Command (1940)
Dark Command
Drama
Romance
Western

A drama of undying love.

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.

1940-04-15
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Cast
Director
Raoul Walsh
Claire Trevor as Miss Mary McCloud
John Wayne as Bob Seton
Walter Pidgeon as William 'Will' Cantrell
Roy Rogers as Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud
George 'Gabby' Hayes as Andrew 'Doc' Grunch
Porter Hall as Angus McCloud
Marjorie Main as Mrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams
Raymond Walburn as Judge Buckner
Joe Sawyer as Bushropp
Helen MacKellar as Mrs. Hale
J. Farrell MacDonald as Dave
Trevor Bardette as Mr. Hale
Ernie Adams as Townsman
Richard Alexander as Phil - Guerrilla Guarding Seton
Hank Bell as Townsman
Ray Bennett as Guerrilla
Stanley Blystone as Tough
Ed Brady as Juror
Al Bridge as Slave Trader
Nora Bush as Townswoman
Budd Buster as Townsman
Yakima Canutt as Townsman on Balcony
Horace B. Carpenter as Townsman
Noble 'Kid' Chissell as Guerrilla
Edmund Cobb as Juror #3
Harry Cording as Angry Townsman in Bank
John Dilson as Town Leader
Edward Earle as Town Leader
Betty Farrington as Townswoman
Joseph Forte as Townsman
Herman Hack as Townsman
Frank Hagney as Tough Yankee #2
Edward Hearn as Jury Foreman
Howard Hickman as Southerner Orating for Votes
Lloyd Ingraham as Townsman
Jack Kirk as Guerrilla
Ethan Laidlaw as Guerrilla
Mike Lally as Townsman
Tom London as Messenger
Walter Long as Townsman
Cactus Mack as Townsman
Nelson McDowell as Farmer
Joe McGuinn as Guerrilla
John Merton as Cantrell Man
Dick Rich as Dental Patient #1
Jack Rockwell as Assassin of Angus McCloud
Clinton Rosemond as Tom - McClouds' Servant
Harry Strang as Man About to Withdraw Money from Bank
Glenn Strange as Tough Yankee #1
Bob Sáenz as Guerrilla
Hal Taliaferro as Angry Townsman in Bank
Al Taylor as Guerrilla
Ferris Taylor as Banker
Ethel Wales as Townswoman
Henry Wills as Guerrilla
Harry Woods as Man in Fight with Seton
Bob Woodward as Yankee
Michael Miller as Child