Dark Command

Dark Command

Movie |

Civil War | Marshal

  • Duration: 1h 34min
  • Music: Victor Young
  • Award(s): Oscar 1941 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The World to Come, Down in the Valley
  • Story:
    When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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6.7/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
Ratings

6.7/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Nominations
Oscar Award

Best Music Original Score | 1941

Best Art Direction BlackandWhite | 1941

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Marjorie Main plays the mother of Will Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon) but was only seven years his senior.

William Cantrell is based on William Quantrill. Like Cantrell, Quantrill was born in Ohio, taught school, became a guerrilla fighter, and burned Lawrence, Kansas to the ground. However, the Confederacy eventually revoked Quantrill's commission and disowned him because of the atrocities committed by him and his band (which included Frank and Jesse James) against soldiers and civilians. The real Quantrill died after an ambush by a Union cavalry unit at Wakefield Farm. Kentucky. Unable to escape, he was shot in the back and paralyzed from the chest down. He was taken to a military prison hospital in Louisville where he died on June 6, 1865, at the age of 27.

The second and last time director Raoul Walsh and John Wayne worked together. Walsh had discovered John Wayne and given him his first leading role 10 years earlier in "The Big Trail."

The third film in which John Wayne and Claire Trevor appeared together; the first was "Stagecoach," followed by "Allegheny Uprising," both in 1939.

This film has a 100% rating based on 5 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Popular Dialogues

"William Cantrell: I know what I'm doing, Ma. I'll be running Kansas yet. I'm going clear up to the top. But I'm not going for the climb or the view."

"Miss Mary McCloud: I thought they bred men of flesh and blood in Texas. I was wrong. You're made of granite! Bob 'Shortcut' Seton: No, Mary, just common clay. It bakes kind of hard in Texas."