Black Arrow is a 1944 American Western Serial film directed by Lew Landers and starring Roberts Scott, Adele Jergens, Robert Williams and Kenneth MacDonald.
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| Directed by | Lew Landers B. Reeves Eason (uncredited) |
| Screenplay by | Sherman L. Lowe (as Sherman Lowe) Jack Stanley Leighton Brill Royal K. Cole |
| Produced by | Rudolph C. Flothow |
| Starring | Mark Roberts Adele Jergens Robert Williams Kenneth MacDonald Elmo Lincoln Charles Middleton Chief Thundercloud |
| Cinematography | Richard Fryer |
| Edited by | Dwight Caldwell Earl Turner |
| Music by | Lee Zahler |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 270 minutes (15 episodes) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editBuck Sherman and Jake Jackson, a couple of evil carpetbaggers, illegally enter a Navajo reservation to prospect for gold and end up killing Aranho, the Navajos' chief. Black Arrow, presumed to be Aranho's son, refuses to kill the Indian agent, Tom Whitney, in revenge, as demanded by Navajo law. Black Arrow is driven off the reservation for his reluctance to kill Whitney and decides to join forces with Pancho, Mary Brent and Whitney to track down the men who killed the chief (Sherman and Jackson).
Cast
edit- Mark Roberts as Black Arrow (as Robert Scott)
- Adele Jergens as Mary Brent
- Robert B. Williams as Buck Sherman (as Robert Williams)
- Kenneth MacDonald as Jake Jackson
- Charles Middleton as Tom Whitney
- Elmo Lincoln as Chief Aranho
- Martin Garralaga as Pancho
- Chief Thundercloud as the medicine man
- George J. Lewis as the "Snake-Who-Walks"
- I. Stanford Jolley as Tobis Becker
- Stanley Price as Wade
- Ferris Taylor as the Sheriff
- Dale Van Sickel as a henchman
- Dan White as Paul Brent
- Forrest Taylor as Prescott
- Nick Thompson as Atalan
- Eddie Parker as Hank
- Bud Osborne as Fred
Chapter titles
edit- The City of Gold
- Signal of Fear
- The Seal of Doom
- Terror of the Badlands
- The Secret of the Vault
- Appointment with Death
- The Chamber of Horror
- The Vanishing Dagger
- Escape from Death
- The Gold Cache
- The Curse of the Killer
- Test by Torture
- The Sign of Evil
- An Indian's Revenge
- Black Arrow Triumphs