Dark Command
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| Dark Command | |
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 1940 movie poster |
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| Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
| Produced by | Sol C. Siegel |
| Written by | screenplay by Jan Fortune F. Hugh Herbert Lionel Houser Grover Jones from the novel by W.R. Burnett |
| Starring | Claire Trevor John Wayne Walter Pidgeon Roy Rogers George "Gabby" Hayes Porter Hall Marjorie Main |
| Music by | Victor Young |
| Cinematography | Jack A. Marta |
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 15, 1940 |
| Running time | 94 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,000,000 (estimated) |
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Dark Command is a 1940 film loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders in the American Civil War. An outlaw leader named "Cantrell" attacks both sides, but after capturing a wagon loaded with Confederate uniforms decides to pass himself as a Confederate officer. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W.R. Burnett, the film features Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, and Gabby Hayes. Dark Command is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and Roy Rogers appear together, and was the first film Wayne and Raoul Walsh made together since Wayne's first leading role in the widescreen western The Big Trail a decade before.
