Dark Command (1940)

Directed by

Raoul Walsh

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A marshal in a Kansas town tries to stop a gang of outlaw raiders led by a respected local man during the Civil War. He also competes for the love of a woman caught between them.

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What happens

Dark Command is a 1940 American Western thriller film that stars Claire Trevor and John Wayne, with Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers and Marjorie Main, loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W. R. Burnett, Dark Command is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and Roy Rogers appear together, and was the only film Wayne and Raoul Walsh made together since Walsh discovered Wayne working as a prop mover, renamed him, and gave him his first leading role in the epic widescreen Western The Big Trail a decade before. The film also features George "Gabby" Hayes as Wayne's character's sidekick. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Score and Best Art Direction by John Victor Mackay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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