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Deadwood Dick is a american film of genre Western directed by James W. Horne released in USA on 19 july 1940 with Donald Douglas
Deadwood Dick (1940)
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Add to a movie listDeadwood Dick (1940) was the 11th serial released by Columbia Pictures.
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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.Actors
Donald Douglas
(Dick Stanley, aka Deadwood Dick)
Lorna Gray
(Anne Butler)
Harry Harvey, Sr.
(Dave Miller)
Jack Ingram
(Chief Henchman Buzz Ricketts)
Marin Sais
(Calamity Jane)
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