''Black Arrow'' is a 1944 American

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directed by

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and starring Roberts Scott,

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, Robert Williams and Kenneth MacDonald.

Plot

Buck Sherman and Jake Jackson, a couple of evil carpetbaggers, illegally enter a Navajo reservation 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. Black Arrow is driven off the reservation for his reluctance to kill Whitney and decides to join forces with Pancho, Mary Brent and Whitney to track down the men who killed the chief (Sherman and Jackson).

Cast

* Mark Roberts as Black Arrow (as Robert Scott) *

as Mary Brent * Robert B. Williams as Buck Sherman (as Robert Williams) * Kenneth MacDonald as Jake Jackson * Charles Middleton as Tom Whitney *

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as Chief Aranho * Martin Garralaga as Pancho *

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as the medicine man * George J. Lewis as the "Snake-Who-Walks" * I. Stanford Jolley as Tobis Becker * Stanley Price as Wade * Ferris Taylor as the Sheriff * Dale Van Sickel as a henchman * Dan White as Paul Brent * Forrest Taylor as Prescott * Nick Thompson as Atalan * Eddie Parker as Hank * Bud Osbourne as Fred

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 Triumphs

Fact

*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''.

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