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Deadwood Dick (serial)

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
Release date
  • July 19, 1940 (1940-07-19)
Running time
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.


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