Dark Command
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders. When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in L…
Dark Command
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders. 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, but politics is in the air: it's just prior to the Civil War and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slavery-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against respected local schoolteacher William Cantrell. Not all is what it seems, though: While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and 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. —garykmcd Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads a band of renegades through Kansas, looting and destroying, all in the name of the Confederacy. —Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net> A Civil-War era story of a renegade guerrilla band led by William Contrell. (Couldn't be a thinly-disguised take-off on the real William Quantrill, confederate guerrilla commander, 1837-1865. No, of course not.) Cow-town boss in conflict with the new marshal. —Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu> The story takes place before the Civil War when Bob Seton takes a run for Federal Marshal of Kansas against William Cantrell. He ends up defeating Cantrell which infuriates him. Cantrell then steals away Seton's girl and manipulates her into marriage. The rivalry between them comes to a climax when Seton exposes Cantrell and his guerrillas. —Christopher D. Ryan <cryan@direct.ca>
Dark Command
Drama,Romance,War
Film Details
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders. 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, but politics is in the air: it's just prior to the Civil War and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slavery-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against respected local schoolteacher William Cantrell.
Not all is what it seems, though: While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and 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.
—garykmcd Cowpoke Bob Seton becomes a rival for William Cantrell's girl and for the sheriff's job Cantrell covets. When Seton wins both, Cantrell forsakes his respected position as schoolteacher and leads a band of renegades through Kansas, looting and destroying, all in the name of the Confederacy. —Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net> A Civil-War era story of a renegade guerrilla band led by William Contrell.
(Couldn't be a thinly-disguised take-off on the real William Quantrill, confederate guerrilla commander, 1837-1865. No, of course not.) Cow-town boss in conflict with the new marshal. —Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu> The story takes place before the Civil War when Bob Seton takes a run for Federal Marshal of Kansas against William Cantrell.
He ends up defeating Cantrell which infuriates him. Cantrell then steals away Seton's girl and manipulates her into marriage. The rivalry between them comes to a climax when Seton exposes Cantrell and his guerrillas.
—Christopher D. Ryan <cryan@direct.ca>.