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Dark Command

A drama of undying love.

  • Movie
  • 1940
  • NR
  • 1h 34m

Directed by Raoul Walsh

6.4

TMDB audience rating
6.4 out of 10 from 64 votes

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Overview

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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Cast and crew

  • Claire Trevor

    Claire TrevorMiss Mary McCloud

  • John Wayne

    John WayneBob Seton

  • Walter Pidgeon

    Walter PidgeonWilliam 'Will' Cantrell

  • Roy Rogers

    Roy RogersFletcher 'Fletch' McCloud

  • George 'Gabby' Hayes

    George 'Gabby' HayesAndrew 'Doc' Grunch

  • Porter Hall

    Porter HallAngus McCloud

  • Marjorie Main

    Marjorie MainMrs. Cantrell / Mrs. Adams

  • Raymond Walburn

    Raymond WalburnJudge Buckner

  • Joe Sawyer

    Joe SawyerBushropp

  • Helen MacKellar

    Helen MacKellarMrs. Hale

  • J. Farrell MacDonald

    J. Farrell MacDonaldDave

  • Trevor Bardette

    Trevor BardetteMr. Hale

  • Ernie Adams

    Ernie AdamsTownsman

  • Richard Alexander

    Richard AlexanderPhil - Guerrilla Guarding Seton

  • Earl AskamGuerrilla

  • Hank Bell

    Hank BellTownsman

  • Ray Bennett

    Ray BennettGuerrilla

  • Stanley Blystone

    Stanley BlystoneTough

Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
W.R. Burnett, Grover Jones and F. Hugh Herbert
Music
Victor Young
Cinematography
Jack A. Marta