- Black Arrow (serial)
Infobox Film
name = Black Arrow
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director =Lew Landers B. Reeves Eason
producer =Rudolph C. Flothow
writer = Sherman LoweJack Stanley Leighton Brill Royal K. Cole
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starring = Robert ScottAdele Jergens
Robert Williams
Kenneth MacDonald
music =Lee Zahler
cinematography =Richard Fryer
editing =Dwight Caldwell
Earl Turner
distributor =Columbia Pictures
released =October 20 , 1944
runtime = 15 chapters
270 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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preceded_by = "The Desert Hawk "
followed_by = "Brenda Starr, Reporter "
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imdb_id = 0036647"Black Arrow" (1944) is a Columbia film serial. It was the twenty-fourth of the fifty-seven serials released by Columbia.
Plot
Buck Sherman and Jake Jackson, a couple of evil carpetbaggers, illegally enter a Navajo reservation in to prospect for gold and end up killing Aranho, the Navajos chief. Black Arrow, presumed Aranho's son, refuses to kill the Indian agent, Tom Whitney, in revenge as demanded by Navajo law. Then, he is driven off the reservation for his reluctance to kill Whitney and decides joins forces with Pancho, Mary Brent and the agent to goes in search of the men who killed the chief.
Cast
Chapter titles
# The City of Gold
# Signal of Fear
# The Seal of Doom
# Terror of the Badlands
# The Secret of the Vault
# Appointment with Death
# The Chamber of Horror
# The Vanishing Dagger
# Escape from Death
# The Gold Cache
# The Curse of the Killer
# Test by Torture
# The Sign of Evil
# An Indian's Revenge
# Black Arrow TriumphsFact
*In this serial, the completely unknown Robert Scott starred as Black Arrow. It was his first and only film leading role. He later changed his name to Mark Roberts and starred as reporter Hildy Johnson in the 1949-1950 syndicated television series "The Front Page".
ee also
*List of film serials by year
*List of film serials by studio ources
* [http://www.cinefania.com/movie.php/44276/ Cinefania.com]
* [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:149257 AllMovie.com]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036647/ IMDb entry]###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Columbia Serial
before="The Desert Hawk " (1944)
years="Black Arrow" (1944)
after="Brenda Starr, Reporter " (1945)
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