Dark command and A Lady Takes a Chance [videorecording (DVD)] / a Republic production ; directed by Raoul Walsh ; associate producer, Sol C. Siegel ; screenplay, Grover Jones, Lionel Houser, F. Hugh Herbert.
Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers, George Hayes, Marjorie Main. Based on the novel The dark command / by W.R. Burnett. DVD release of the 1940 motion picture.
Summary:
Set in pre-Civil War Lawrence, Kansas where tensions about slavery ran high, this film tells a fictionalized version of the story of the raider William Clarke Quantrill. Bob Seton runs for Federal Marshall of Kansas and defeats William Cantrell. Cantrell responds by stealing Seton's girl and manipulating her into marrying him. Seton later exposes Cantrell and his band of guerillas who have been raiding both Union and Confederate lines. Finding men has never been a problem for city girl Molly Trousdale - finding the right man is another matter. And women have never been a problem for cowboy bachelor Duke Hutkins - until they want to marry him
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