Black Arrow (serial)

Black Arrow
Directed by	Lew Landers B. Reeves Eason
Produced by	Rudolph C. Flothow
Written by	Sherman Lowe Jack Stanley Leighton Brill Royal K. Cole
Starring	Robert Scott Adele Jergens Robert Williams Kenneth MacDonald
Music by	Lee Zahler
Cinematography	Richard Fryer
Edited by	Dwight Caldwell Earl Turner
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	October 20, 1944 (1944-10-20)
Running time	15 chapters 270 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Black Arrow (1944) is a Columbia film serial. It was the twenty-fourth of the fifty-seven serials released by Columbia.

Plot

Buck Sherman and Jake Jackson, a couple of evil carpetbaggers, illegally enter a Navajo reservation in to prospect for gold and end up killing Aranho, the Navajos chief. Black Arrow, presumed Aranho's son, refuses to kill the Indian agent, Tom Whitney, in revenge as demanded by Navajo law. Then, he is driven off the reservation for his reluctance to kill Whitney and decides joins forces with Pancho, Mary Brent and the agent to goes in search of the men who killed the chief.

Cast

Chapter titles

1. The City of Gold
2. Signal of Fear
3. The Seal of Doom
4. Terror of the Badlands
5. The Secret of the Vault
6. Appointment with Death
7. The Chamber of Horror
8. The Vanishing Dagger
9. Escape from Death
10. The Gold Cache
11. The Curse of the Killer
12. Test by Torture
13. The Sign of Evil
14. An Indian's Revenge
15. Black Arrow Triumphs

Fact

• In this serial, the completely unknown Robert Scott starred as Black Arrow. It was his first and only film leading role. He later changed his name to Mark Roberts and starred as reporter Hildy Johnson in the 1949-1950 syndicated television series The Front Page.

External links

• Black Arrow at the Internet Movie Database
• Black Arrow at AllMovie
• Cinefania.com