---
title: 'Dark Command (1940)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Raoul Walsh'
released: '1940-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 96
genres:
  - 'Western'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/dark-command-1940'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032383/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Dark Command (1940)

1940 · 96 min · Western · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Raoul Walsh](https://cinepixo.com/people/raoul-walsh)
- **Screenplay:** [F. Hugh Herbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/f-hugh-herbert), [Grover Jones](https://cinepixo.com/people/grover-jones)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Victor Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-young)
- **Producer:** [Sol C. Siegel](https://cinepixo.com/people/sol-c-siegel)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jack A. Marta](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-a-marta)

## Cast

- [Lloyd Ingraham](https://cinepixo.com/people/lloyd-ingraham)
- [Raymond Walburn](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-walburn)
- [John Wayne](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-wayne)
- [Edward Hearn](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-hearn)
- [Edward Earle](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-earle)
- [Porter Hall](https://cinepixo.com/people/porter-hall)
- [J. Farrell MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-farrell-macdonald)
- [Ferris Taylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferris-taylor)
- [Ethel Wales](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethel-wales)
- [Frank Hagney](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-hagney)
- [Walter Pidgeon](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-pidgeon)
- [Jack Rockwell](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-rockwell)
- [Trevor Bardette](https://cinepixo.com/people/trevor-bardette)
- [Edmund Cobb](https://cinepixo.com/people/edmund-cobb)
- [John Dilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-dilson)

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