''The Black Whip'' is a 1957 American

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film directed by Charles Marquis Warren and starring

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and

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. The film brief describes the film as "two brothers rescue four dance-hall girls, and encounter trouble from a villain wielding a wicked whip". The film depicts the time as April 1867, when post-war derelicts, plunderers, and looters continue their crazed violence out west. The story and screenplay were written by

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. Sets from the "Gunsmoke" TV series were used.

Plot

John Murdock ( Paul Richards) is a notorious outlaw who leads the vicious gang known as the Blacklegs. Armed with his signature black whip, he and his men invade a small town, looking to stir up trouble. In between harassing the girls at the saloon and attacking the locals, the Blacklegs are plotting a bigger scheme: kidnapping the governor of Kentucky (Patrick O'Moore) and holding him for ransom. The only man who stands in their way is former Confederate officer Lorn Crowford (

Cast

as Lorn Crawford *

as Jeannie *

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as Ruthie Dawson *

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as Sally Morrow * Richard Gilden as Dewey Crawford * Paul Richards as John Murdock * John Pickard as Sheriff Persons * Dorothy Schuyler as Delilah Ware *

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as Chick Hainline (as Charles Gray) * Sheb Wooley as Bill Lassater *

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as Thorny *

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as Fiddler *

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as Governor * William Hamel as Constable * Duane Grey as Deputy Floyd (as Duane Thorsen) * Rush Williams Jailer Garner * Howard Culver as Dr. Gillette * Sid Cutis as Bartender

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* * * 1956 films 1956 Western (genre) films CinemaScope films Films set in 1867 American Western (genre) films 20th Century Fox films Films scored by Raoul Kraushaar 1950s English-language films 1950s American films American black-and-white films {{1950s-Western-film-stub