Dark Command.

Duration: 10 reels

Genre: western

Year Published: 1940

Creator: Raoul Walsh

Credits: Cast: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon

Description: Mary McCloud marries a seemingly peaceful Kansas schoolteacher William Cantrell. He is actually an outlaw leader who attacks both sides in the Civil War for his own profit. After capturing a wagon loaded with Confederate uniforms, he decides to pass himself off as a Confederate officer. Her naive, idealistic brother Fletcher joins what he believes is a Rebel guerrilla force.

Complete Record: DARK COMMAND. c1940. 10 reels, sd. Based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. Credits: Associate producer, Sol C. Siegel; director, Raoul Walsh; screenplay, Grover Jones, Lionel Houser, F. Hugh Herbert; adaptation, Jan Fortune; music director, Victor Young; photography, Jack Marta; film editor, William Morgan. Appl. author: Republic Productions, Inc. © Republic Pictures Corp.; 15Apr40; LP9580.

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