Movielogr
Dark Command (1940)
Directed by Raoul Walsh
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.
Rated NR | Length 94 minutes
Actors
Claire Trevor | John Wayne | Walter Pidgeon | Roy Rogers | George 'Gabby' Hayes | Porter Hall | Marjorie Main | Raymond Walburn | Joe Sawyer | Helen MacKellar | J. Farrell MacDonald | Trevor Bardette | Ernie Adams | Richard Alexander | Earl Askam | Hank Bell | Ray Bennett | Stanley Blystone | Ed Brady | Al Bridge | Roy Bucko | Nora Bush | Budd Buster | Yakima Canutt | Bob Card | Horace B. Carpenter | Burr Caruth | Noble Chissell | Edmund Cobb | Tex Cooper | Harry Cording | Bobby Crandall | Marvin Davis | Art Dillard | John Dilson | Edward Earle | Betty Farrington | Robert Ferrero | Joseph Forte | Mildred Gover | Herman Hack | Frank Hagney | Al Haskell | Edward Hearn | Howard C. Hickman | Lloyd Ingraham | Jack Kirk | Ethan Laidlaw | Mike Lally | Tom London | Walter Long | Jack Low | Herbert MacGregor | Cactus Mack | Nelson McDowell | Joe McGuinn | John Merton | Jack Montgomery | Dolly Nardon | Lawrence Osman | Russell Palmer | Harvard Peck | Dick Rich | Lee Riggin | Jack Rockwell | Clinton Rosemond | Tom Smith | Harry Strang | Glenn Strange | Bob Sáenz | Hal Taliaferro | Al Taylor | Ferris Taylor | Ernest Tobey | Ethel Wales | Cecil Weston | Henry Wills | Harry Woods | Bob Woodward | Michael Miller