Dark Command
1940 · directed by Raoul Walsh
- Rating
- 79/100
- Hit
- no
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.
Dark Command (1940), directed by Raoul Walsh, rates 79/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Claire Trevor
- John Wayne
- Walter Pidgeon
- Roy Rogers
- George 'Gabby' Hayes
- Porter Hall
- Marjorie Main
- Raymond Walburn
- Joe Sawyer
- Helen MacKellar
Crew
- Jack A. Marta — Director of Photography
- William Morgan — Editor
- Victor Young — Original Music Composer
- F. Hugh Herbert — Screenplay
- Grover Jones — Screenplay
- Lionel Houser — Screenplay
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- White Heat (1949) — 84/100 · hit
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) — 84/100 · hit
- Gentleman Jim (1942) — 84/100 · hit
- Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) — 83/100 · hit
- The Roaring Twenties (1939) — 82/100 · hit
- The Big Trail (1930) — 82/100 · hit
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