Black Arrow (serial)

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Black Arrow
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Theatrical release poster
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 (actor)
Chief Thundercloud
Cinematography Richard Fryer
Edited by Dwight Caldwell
Earl Turner
Music by Lee Zahler
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • October 20, 1944 (1944-10-20)
Running time
270 minutes
(15 episodes)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Black Arrow is a 1944 American Western Serial film directed by Lew Landers and starring Roberts Scott, Adele Jergens, Robert Williams and Kenneth MacDonald.

Contents

Plot

Buck 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

Chapter titles

  1. The City of Gold
  2. Signal of Fear
  3. The Seal of Doom
  4. Terror of the Badlands
  5. The Secret of the Vault
  6. Appointment with Death
  7. The Chamber of Horror
  8. The Vanishing Dagger
  9. Escape from Death
  10. The Gold Cache
  11. The Curse of the Killer
  12. Test by Torture
  13. The Sign of Evil
  14. An Indian's Revenge
  15. Black Arrow Triumphs

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