Black Arrow (serial)

Black Arrow

Directed by	Lew Landers B. Reeves Eason
Produced by	Rudolph C. Flothow
Written by	Sherman Lowe Jack Stanley Leighton Brill Royal K. Cole
Starring	Robert Scott Adele Jergens Robert Williams Kenneth MacDonald
Music by	Lee Zahler
Cinematography	Richard Fryer
Edited by	Dwight Caldwell Earl Turner
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	October 20, 1944 (1944-10-20)
Running time	15 chapters 270 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Black Arrow (1944) is a Columbia film serial. It was the twenty-fourth of the fifty-seven serials released by Columbia.

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 Aranho's son, refuses to kill the Indian agent, Tom Whitney, in revenge, as demanded by Navajo law. Then, he is driven off the reservation for his reluctance to kill Whitney and decides to join forces with Pancho, Mary Brent and the agent to go in search of the men who killed the chief.

Cast

Robert Scott	Black Arrow
Adele Jergens	Mary Brent
Robert Williams	Buck Sherman
Kenneth MacDonald	Jake Jackson
Charles Middleton	Tom Whitney
Martin Garralaga	Pancho
George J. Lewis	Snake-That-Walks
I. Stanford Jolley	Tobis Becker
Bud Osborne	Fred
Stanley Price	Wade
Eddie Parker	Hank
Ted Mapes	Hank
Dan White	Paul Brent
Chief Thundercloud	Tribal Medicine Man
Bud Osborne	Fred

Chapter titles

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

Fact

In this serial, the completely unknown Robert Scott starred as Black Arrow. It was his first and only film leading role. He later changed his name to Mark Roberts and starred as reporter Hildy Johnson in the 1949-1950 syndicated television series The Front Page.

External links

Black Arrow at the Internet Movie Database
Black Arrow at AllMovie
Cinefania.com

Columbia serials

Pre-war serials (1937–1941)	Jungle Menace The Mysterious Pilot The Secret of Treasure Island The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok The Spider's Web Flying G-Men Mandrake the Magician Overland with Kit Carson The Shadow Terry and the Pirates Deadwood Dick The Green Archer White Eagle The Spider Returns The Iron Claw Holt of the Secret Service

War-time serials (1942–1945)	Captain Midnight Perils of the Royal Mounted The Secret Code The Valley of Vanishing Men Batman The Phantom The Desert Hawk Black Arrow Brenda Starr, Reporter The Monster and the Ape

Post-war serials (1945–1956)	Jungle Raiders Who's Guilty? Hop Harrigan Chick Carter, Detective Son of the Guardsman Jack Armstrong The Vigilante The Sea Hound Brick Bradford Tex Granger Superman Congo Bill Bruce Gentry Batman and Robin Adventures of Sir Galahad Cody of the Pony Express Atom Man vs. Superman Pirates of the High Seas Roar of the Iron Horse Mysterious Island Captain Video King of the Congo Blackhawk Son of Geronimo The Lost Planet The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd Gunfighters of the Northwest Riding with Buffalo Bill The Adventures of Captain Africa Perils of the Wilderness Blazing the Overland Trail

Films directed by Lew Landers

The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
The Red Rider (1934)
Tailspin Tommy (1934)
Rustlers of Red Dog (1935)
The Call of the Savage (1935)
The Raven (1935)
Stormy (1935)
Night Waitress (1936)
Border Cafe (1937)
Danger Patrol (1937)
Flight from Glory (1937)
The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
They Wanted to Marry (1937)
Crashing Hollywood (1938)
Condemned Women (1938)
Law of the Underworld (1938)
Blind Alibi (1938)
Smashing the Rackets (1938)
Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)
Double Danger (1938)
Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)
Fixer Dugan (1939)
Ski Patrol (1940)
Wagons Westward (1940)
Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot (1940)
Girl from Havana (1940)
Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941)
The Singing Hill (1941)
Harvard, Here I Come! (1941)
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Atlantic Convoy (1942)
The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
Doughboys in Ireland (1943)
Power of the Press (1943)
After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
Redhead from Manhattan (1943)
The Return of the Vampire (1943)
Cowboy Canteen (1944)
Swing in the Saddle (1944)
Black Arrow (1944)
I'm from Arkansas (1944)
Crime, Inc. (1945)
The Enchanted Forest (1945)
Follow That Woman (1945)
The Mask of Diijon (1946)
Hot Cargo (1946)
The Truth About Murder (1946)
Danger Street (1947)
Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
Inner Sanctum (1948)
Jungle Manhunt (1951)
The Magic Carpet (1951)
Aladdin and His Lamp (1952)
Adventures of Gallant Bess (1952)
Arctic Flight (1952)
Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land (1952)
California Conquest (1952)
Man in the Dark (1953)
Tangier Incident (1953)
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954)
Hot Rod Gang (1958)

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