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Deadwood Dick (serial)

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Deadwood Dick
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJames W. Horne
Screenplay byWyndham Gittens
Morgan Cox
(as Morgan B. Cox)
George H. Plympton
(as George Plympton)
John Cutting
Produced byLarry Darmour
StarringDon Douglas
Lorna Gray
CinematographyJames S. Brown Jr.
Edited byDwight Caldwell
Earl Turner
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • July 19, 1940 (1940-07-19)
Running time
285 minutes
(15 episodes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Deadwood Dick is a 1940 American Western Serial film directed by James W. Horne and starring Don Douglas and Lorna Gray. The character of Deadwood Dick was for the most part another version of "Zorro".[1]

Plot

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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 defeat the Skull.

Cast

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Chapter titles

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  1. A Wild West Empire
  2. Who is the Skull?
  3. Pirates of the Plains
  4. The Skull Baits a Trap
  5. Win, Lose or Draw
  6. Buried Alive
  7. The Chariot of Doom
  8. The Secret of Number Ten
  9. The Fatal Warning
  10. Framed for Murder
  11. The Bucket of Death
  12. A Race Against Time
  13. The Arsenal of Revolt
  14. Holding the Fort
  15. The Deadwood Express

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Deadwood Dick (1940) - James W. Horne | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
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