Dark Command

Name: Dark Command
Director: Raoul Walsh
Released: 1940-01-01

1940 film by Raoul Walsh

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Also known as The Dark Command

Released: 1940
Director: Raoul Walsh
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1.Stated in IMDbRetrieved 2016-04-19
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Screenwriter: F. Hugh Herbert
, Grover Jones
Producer: Sol C. Siegel
Cast: Claire Trevor
, John Wayne
, Walter Pidgeon
, Roy Rogers
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Runtime: 96 min
Genre: Western film
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Country of origin: United States

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Dark Command is a 1940 American Western thriller film that stars Claire Trevor and John Wayne, with Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers and Marjorie Main, loosely based on Quantrill's Raiders during the American Civil War. Directed by Raoul Walsh from the novel by W. R. Burnett, Dark Command is the only film in which western icons John Wayne and Roy Rogers appear together, and was the only film Wayne and Raoul Walsh made together since Walsh discovered Wayne working as a prop mover, renamed him, and gave him his first leading role in the epic widescreen Western The Big Trail a decade before.

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Narrative location: Kansas
Title: Dark Command
Color: black-and-white
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Black and White(February 10, 1941) nominee: John Victor Mackay · statement is subject of: 13th Academy Awards
Academy Award for Best Original Score(February 10, 1941) nominee: Victor Young · statement is subject of: 13th Academy Awards
Director of photography: Jack A. Marta
FSK film rating: FSK 16
Production designer: John Victor Mackay
Distribution format: video on demand
Review score: 6.7/10(July 6, 2026) review score by: IMDb · number of reviews/ratings: 3,300 global user rating
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100%(October 27, 2025) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 5 critic review
7.6/10(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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RARS rating: 12+
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1.Stated in Kinopoisk
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