Dark Command (1940)
8/10
I've killed men for saying less than that!
23 May 2007
12 hours into the John Wayne Marathon, we have a tale of Cantrall's raiders, who terrorized Kansas before, during and after the Civil War.

This film was nominated for an Academy Award for John Victor Mackay's art direction and Victor Young's musical score.

John Wayne again appears with Claire Trevor, and a young Roy Rogers as her brother. He is competing with Cantrell (Walter Pidgeon) for her hand, and they go back and forth throughout the movie.

This film was quite a bit darker than the Audie Murphy version of the story ten years later. They even learned to spell the name right (Quantrill).

Good film for a young John Wayne.
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