Tall in the Saddle
1944
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- Nominated for the Interior Decoration and Score Oscars, this John Wayne pre-Civil War adventure is better than the norm due to Raoul Walsh's direction and good cast.
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It alternates between broad comedy, overwrought melodrama, and increasingly dark and apocalyptic undertones. Walsh handles it all very well and John Wayne gives a fine performance.
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Dark Command is a very good and interesting movie. I would agree the story is rather thin and ordinary and could have been sharper in some scenes. The film could have been a little shorter too, and while not bad by all means some of the supporting actors and this is including Roy Rogers are just standard.
Dark Command remains the only other film upon which both Walsh and Wayne collaborated during their lengthy careers. The film was financed on a larger budget than Republic normally provided. It was a similar scale to a successful historical drama they had made the year before, Man of Conquest .
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
Loosely based around a true story, Dark Command sees John Wayne play Bob Seton, an uneducated cowboy from Texas who wins around the people of Lawrence, Kansas to become their town Marshall just prior to the outbreak of the civil war.
Mar 11, 2008 · March 11, 2008 by EmanuelLevy. Dark Command is one of the three pictures John Wayne made with Claire Trevor; the others were Stagecoach and Allegheney Rising, both in 1939. In all three, Trevor, then a bigger name than Wayne, got star billing. Dark Command. 1940 film poster.
