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Dark Command is a 1940 Crime western film starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and Walter Pidgeon loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War.Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W. R. Burnett, Dark Command is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and Roy Rogers appear together, and was the only film Wayne and Raoul Walsh made together since Walsh discovered ...
Dark Command: Directed by Raoul Walsh. With Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers. In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
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- Drama, Romance, War
- Raoul Walsh
- 1940-04-15
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1940 western film Dark Command, directed by Raoul Walsh and based on a novel by W.R. Burnett. See the full credits for actors, writers, producers, composers, and more.
As the Civil War erupts, the townsfolk of Lawrence, Kansas side with either the North or the South, and a deeply embittered sheriff allies himself to the South as a cover for his outlaw gang to ...
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- Claire Trevor
- Raoul Walsh
- Western
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. When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in ...
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The story takes place before the Civil War when Bob Seton takes a run for Federal Marshal of Kansas against William Cantrell. He ends up defeating Cantrell which infuriates him. Cantrell then steals away Seton's girl and manipulates her into marriage. The rivalry between them comes to a climax when Seton exposes Cantrell and his guerrillas.
Dark Command -- (Movie Clip) Fletch Fletch McCloud (Roy Rogers) argues with his bather Angus (Porter Hall) and is pacified by his sister (Claire Trevor) in this early scene from Dark Command, (1940). Dark Command -- (Movie Clip) Barbershop Fletch McCloud (Roy Rogers) chats with Bob Seton (John Wayne) who doesn't know the lady being discussed is ...
