Deadwood Dick (1940)

Deadwood Dick is a 1940 American Western Serial film directed by James W. Horne and starring Don Douglas and Lorna Gray. The character of Deadwood Dick is for the most part another version of "Zorro". Characters also include Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane.

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

Don Douglas as Dick Stanley - aka Deadwood Dick (credited as Don Douglas)

Lorna Gray as Anne Butler

Harry Harvey as Dave Miller

Marin Sais as Calamity Jane

Lane Chandler as Wild Bill Hickok [Ch.1]

Jack Ingram as Buzz Ricketts - Chief Henchman

Charles King as Tex - Henchman [Chs. 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

List of American films of 1940

References

External links

Deadwood Dick at IMDb