Deadwood Dick (1940)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Donald Douglas	...	Dick Stanley, aka Deadwood Dick (as Don Douglas)
	Lorna Gray	...	Anne Butler
	Harry Harvey	...	Dave Miller
	Marin Sais	...	Calamity Jane
	Lane Chandler	...	Wild Bill Hickok [Ch. 1]
	Jack Ingram	...	Chief Henchman Buzz Ricketts
	Charles King	...	Henchman Tex [Chs. 1-4, 6-9]
	Ed Cassidy	...	Committeeman Tennison Drew
	Robert Fiske	...	Committeeman Ashton [Chs.1-6]
	Lee Shumway	...	Committeman Bentley

Storyline

Columbia's 11th serial (between "Terry and the Pirates" and "The Green Archer") and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed. The standard one-man-to-a-hoss and nobody walks rule of Westerns tended to cramp Horne's usual style of directing, in that he wasn't able to pour six or seven henchies into a four-door sedan and have them come tumbling out like the clowns at a circus, and the surprise with those familiar with his serials is that he didn't have all the henchmen riding around in a stagecoach or wagon. And, since they usually stayed on their horse, he was unable to have them rounding a corner on foot at an angle, freeze in surprise with their arms thrust over their heads, do a couple of takes and hot-foot it stage left for an alarmed feet-do-your-stuff exit. The character of "Deadwood Dick" in this serial is just a name that had a ring to it... Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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