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Deadwood Dick (serial)
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Wikipedia article
'Deadwood Dick' is a 1940 American Western Serial film directed by James W. Horne and starring Don Douglas and Lorna Gray.
Plot
Deadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked villain known as the Skull, who leads a violent, renegade band infamous for its violence against the Deadwood residents' wishes for a statehood status. Our hero soon discovers that the Skull terrorizes the town to prevent statehood from being achieved in order to build his own empire in the vast territory. However, Dick suspects that one of his fellow committeemen might be responsible for the string of criminal acts. It takes him 15 episodes and about 40 choreographed slugfests to finally uncover the truth and reward the Skull's villainy with an exemplary punishment.
Cast
* Donald Douglas as Dick Stanley - aka Deadwood Dick (as Don Douglas)
* Lorna Gray as Anne Butler
* Harry Harvey as Dave Miller
* Marin Sais as Calamity Jane
* Lane Chandler as Wild Bill Hickok [Ch.1]
* Jack Ingram as Buzz Ricketts - Chief Henchman
* Charles King as Tex - Henchman [Chs. 1-4, 6-9]
* Ed Cassidy as Tennison Drew - Committeeman
* Robert Fiske as Ashton - Committeeman
* Lee Shumway as Bentley - Committeeman
Chapter titles
# A Wild West Empire
# Who is the Skull?
# Pirates of the Plains
# The Skull Baits a Trap
# Win, Lose or Draw
# Buried Alive
# The Chariot of Doom
# The Secret of Number Ten
# The Fatal Warning
# Framed for Murder
# The Bucket of Death
# A Race Against Time
# The Arsenal of Revolt
# Holding the Fort
# The Deadwood Express
See also
* List of American films of 1940
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