Deadwood Dick (serial)

Deadwood Dick
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
Editing by	Dwight Caldwell Earl Turner
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	July 19, 1940
Running time	15 chapters 285 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Deadwood Dick (1940) was the 11th serial released by Columbia Pictures.

Plot

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.

Cast

Don Douglas	Dick Stanley/Deadwood Dick
Lorna Gray	Anne Butler
Harry Harvey	Dave Miller, Stanley's assistant
Marin Sais	Calamity Jane
Lane Chandler	Wild Bill Hickok
Jack Ingram	Buzz Ricketts, Chief henchman
Charles King	Tex, henchman
Ed Cassidy	Committeeman Tennison Drew
Robert Fiske	Committeeman Ashton
Lee Shumway	Committeeman Bentley
Roy Barcroft	Marshal Jim Bridges' imposter
Yakima Canutt	Henchman
Horace B. Carpenter	Older Townsman
Edmund Cobb	Committeeman Steele
Jim Corey	Steve, henchman
Kenne Duncan	'Two-Gun', henchman
Al Ferguson	Mike, henchman
Fern Emmett	Miranda, henchman
Franklyn Farnum	Clayton, henchman
Helen Gibson	Townswoman
Joseph W. Girard	Government Referee
Chuck Hamilton	Henchman
Edward Hearn	Committeeman Tom Sharp
Fred Kelsey	Bottles, bartender
Eddie Laughton	Henchman
Tom London	Jake, henchman
Murdock MacQuarrie	Kenyon
Arthur Millett	Judge
Bud Osborne	Strong, stage driver
Edward Peil Sr.	Committeeman Sears
Forrest Taylor	The Skull (when in costume only)
Blackie Whiteford	Henchman

Chapter titles

1. A Wild West Empire
2. Who is the Skull?
3. Pirates of the Plains
4. The Skull Baits a Trap
5. Win Lose for 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

External links

• Deadwood Dick at AllRovi
• Deadwood Dick at the Internet Movie Database