Deadwood Dick | |
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Directed by | James W. Horne |
Produced by | Larry Darmour |
Written by |
Wyndham Gittens Morgan B. Cox George H. Plympton John Cutting Screenplay and history |
Starring |
Don Douglas Lorna Gray Harry Harvey Marin Sais |
Music by | Lee Zahler |
Cinematography |
James S. Brown Jr. Black and white |
Edited by |
Dwight Caldwell Earl Turner |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time
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15 chapters 285 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Not to be confused with the nineteenth century dime novel hero, Deadwood Dick
Deadwood Dick (1940) was the 11th serial released by Columbia Pictures.
Deadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in a reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of the Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked villain known as the Skull, who leads a violent, renegade band which is infamous for its violence against the Deadwood residents wishes for a statehood status. Our hero soon discovers that the Skull terrorises the town to prevent statehood being achieved, in order to build his own empire in the vast territory. But Dick suspects that one of his fellow committeemen might be responsible for the string of criminal acts. It takes him fifteen episodes and about forty choreographed slugfests to finally uncover the truth and reward the Skull's villainy with an exemplary punishment.