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''Deadwood Dick'' is a 1940 American Western Serial film directed by
James W. Horne James Wesley Horne (December 14, 1881June 29, 1942) was an American actor, screenwriter, and film director. Silent era James Horne began his career as an actor under director Sidney Olcott at Kalem Studios in 1913 and directed his first film f ...
and starring
Don Douglas Donald Douglas (born Douglas William Kinleyside, 24 August 1905 – 31 December 1945) was a Scottish actor in the United States who performed in films, on the stage and in radio. Background He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 24 August 1 ...
and Lorna Gray. The character of Deadwood Dick was for the most part another version of "Zorro".https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v140237


Plot

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

* Donald Douglas as Dick Stanley - aka Deadwood Dick (as Don Douglas) * Lorna Gray as Anne Butler * Harry Harvey as Dave Miller * Marin Sais as Calamity Jane * Lane Chandler as Wild Bill Hickok h.1* Jack Ingram as Buzz Ricketts - Chief Henchman * Charles King as Tex - Henchman hs. 1-4, 6-9* Ed Cassidy as Tennison Drew - Committeeman * Robert Fiske as Ashton - Committeeman * Lee Shumway as Bentley - Committeeman


Chapter titles

# A Wild West Empire # Who is the Skull? # Pirates of the Plains # The Skull Baits a Trap # Win, Lose or Draw # Buried Alive # The Chariot of Doom # The Secret of Number Ten # The Fatal Warning # Framed for Murder # The Bucket of Death # A Race Against Time # The Arsenal of Revolt # Holding the Fort # The Deadwood Express


See also

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List of American films of 1940 A list of American films released in 1940. American film production was concentrated in Hollywood and was dominated by the eight Major film studios MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, RKO, Columbia, Universal and United Artists. ...


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* * {{James W. Horne 1940 films 1940 Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures film serials 1940s English-language films Films directed by James W. Horne American Western (genre) films Cultural depictions of Wild Bill Hickok Cultural depictions of Calamity Jane Films with screenplays by George H. Plympton 1940s American films