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Dark Command

A drama of undying love.

6.4(64)19401h 34m3

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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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • civil war
  • marshal
  • kansas, usa

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Director

Raoul Walsh

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR15 Apr 1940
  • CanadaCA

    • Theatrical18A15 Apr 1940
  • BrazilBR

    • TVLWorldvision Filmes do Brasil8 Dec 1998
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1631 Aug 1951
  • PortugalPT

    • Theatrical1 Nov 1943
  • XCXC

    • Theatrical2 May 1947

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Dark Command was released on 15 April 1940.

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    John Chard

    4/26/2020

    7/10

    On to Kansas we go. Loosely based around a true story, Dark Command sees John Wayne play Bob Seton, an uneducated cowboy from Texas who wins around the people of Lawrence, Kansas to become their town Marshall just prior to the outbreak of the civil war. This angers the previously respectful town teacher, Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon), who after being beaten on the vote by Seton, forms guerrilla groups to raid, p…

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