Black Arrow is a Columbia

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

 film serial

Serial (film)

Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials, Film serials or Chapter plays, were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film. They were related to pulp magazine serialized fiction...

. 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 in 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 joins forces with Pancho, Mary Brent and the agent to goes in search of the men who killed the chief.

Cast

Robert Scott Mark Roberts (actor) Mark Roberts was an American stage, film and television support actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1938 and 1994, according to the Internet Movie Database. Sometimes he was credited as Bob Scott, Robert E. Scott, or Robert Scott...	Black Arrow
Adele Jergens Adele Jergens Adele Jergens was an American actress.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jergen's birth date is sometimes listed as 1922. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair...	Mary Brent
Robert Williams	Buck Sherman
Kenneth MacDonald Kenneth MacDonald (American actor) Kenneth MacDonald was an American film actor. Born in Portland, Indiana, MacDonald made more than 220 film and television appearances between 1931 and 1970.-Career:...	Jake Jackson
Charles Middleton Charles B. Middleton Charles B. Middleton was an American stage and film actor. During a film career that began at age 46 and lasted almost 30 years, Charles Middleton appeared in nearly two hundred films as well as numerous plays...	Tom Whitney
Martin Garralaga Martin Garralaga Martin Garralaga was a Spanish-born film and television actor who portrayed more than 200 roles in film and television....	Pancho
George J. Lewis George J. Lewis George J. Lewis was a Mexican-born actor who appeared in many films and eventually TV series from the 1920s through the 1960s, usually specializing in westerns...	Snake-That-Walks
I. Stanford Jolley I. Stanford Jolley Isaac Stanford Jolley, Sr., known as I. Stanford Jolley was a prolific American character actor of film and television, primarily in western roles as cowboys, law-enforcement officers, or villains...	Tobis Becker
Bud Osborne Bud Osborne Bud Osborne was an American film actor. He appeared in over 600 films and television programs between 1912 and 1963.Osborne was born in Knox County, Texas, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack...	Fred
Stanley Price Stanley Price Stanley Price was an American film supporting actor who appeared in over 200 films between 1922 and 1956. He was born in Kansas, United States.-Career:...	Wade
Eddie Parker Eddie Parker Eddie Parker was a stuntman and actor who appeared in many classic films, mostly westerns and horror films...	Hank
Ted Mapes	Hank
Dan White Dan White (actor) Dan White was an American actor, well known for appearing in several Western films.-Early life:Dan White was born to George and Orpha White in Falmouth, Florida, one of twelve siblings. The Whites moved to Lakeland during World War I. By age 14, White was in show business...	Paul Brent
Chief Thundercloud Chief Thundercloud Chief Thundercloud, was an American character actor in westerns.Information about Thundercloud is vague...	Tribal Medicine Man
Bud Osborne Bud Osborne Bud Osborne was an American film actor. He appeared in over 600 films and television programs between 1912 and 1963.Osborne was born in Knox County, Texas, and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack...	Fred

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

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

• Cinefania.com