Deadwood Dick (serial)

Not to be confused with the nineteenth century dime novel hero, Deadwood Dick

Deadwood Dick
Directed by	James W. Horne
Produced by	Larry Darmour
Written by	Wyndham Gittens Morgan B. Cox George H. Plympton John Cutting Screenplay and history
Starring	Don Douglas Lorna Gray Harry Harvey Marin Sais
Music by	Lee Zahler
Cinematography	James S. Brown Jr. Black and white
Edited by	Dwight Caldwell Earl Turner
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	July 19, 1940 (1940-07-19)
Running time	15 chapters 285 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Deadwood Dick (1940) was the 11th serial released by Columbia Pictures.

Plot

Deadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in a reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of the Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked villain known as the Skull, who leads a violent, renegade band which is infamous for its violence against the Deadwood residents wishes for a statehood status. Our hero soon discovers that the Skull terrorises the town to prevent statehood being achieved, in order to build his own empire in the vast territory. But Dick suspects that one of his fellow committeemen might be responsible for the string of criminal acts. It takes him fifteen episodes and about forty choreographed slugfests to finally uncover the truth and reward the Skull's villainy with an exemplary punishment.

Cast

Chapter titles

1. A Wild West Empire
2. Who is the Skull?
3. Pirates of the Plains
4. The Skull Baits a Trap
5. Win, Lose or Draw
6. Buried Alive
7. The Chariot of Doom
8. The Secret of Number Ten
9. The Fatal Warning
10. Framed for Murder
11. The Bucket of Death
12. A Race Against Time
13. The Arsenal of Revolt
14. Holding the Fort
15. The Deadwood Express

External links

• Deadwood Dick at AllMovie
• Deadwood Dick at the Internet Movie Database