Deadwood Dick (1940) was the 11th serial released by Columbia Pictures.

Plot
Deadwood Dick, a masked and mysterious hero, is in reality Dick Stanley, editor of the Dakota Pioneer Press and a leading member of Statehood For Dakota. He is on the trail of a masked villain known as the Skull, who leads a violent, renegade band infamous for its violence against the Deadwood residents’ wishes for a statehood status. Our hero soon discovers that the Skull terrorizes the town to prevent statehood from being achieved in order to build his own empire in the vast territory. However, Dick suspects that one of his fellow committeemen might be responsible for the string of criminal acts. It takes him 15 episodes and about 40 choreographed slugfests to finally uncover the truth and reward the Skull’s villainy with an exemplary punishment.

Cast
Don Douglas as Dick Stanley/Deadwood Dick
Lorna Gray as Anne Butler
Harry Harvey as Dave Miller, Stanley’s assistant
Marin Sais as Calamity Jane
Lane Chandler as Wild Bill Hickok
Jack Ingram as Buzz Ricketts, Chief henchman
Charles King as Tex, henchman
Ed Cassidy as Committeeman Tennison Drew
Robert Fiske as Committeeman Ashton
Lee Shumway as Committeeman Bentley
Roy Barcroft as Marshal Jim Bridges’ imposter
Yakima Canutt as Henchman
Horace B. Carpenter as Older Townsman
Edmund Cobb as Committeeman Steele
Jim Corey as Steve, henchman
Kenne Duncan as ‘Two-Gun’, henchman
Al Ferguson as Mike, henchman
Fern Emmett as Miranda, henchman
Franklyn Farnum as Clayton, henchman
Helen Gibson as Townswoman
Joseph W. Girard as Government Referee
Chuck Hamilton as Henchman
Edward Hearn as Committeeman Tom Sharp
Fred Kelsey as Bottles, bartender
Eddie Laughton as Henchman
Tom London as Jake, henchman
Murdock MacQuarrie as Kenyon
Arthur Millett as Judge
Bud Osborne as Strong, stage driver
Edward Peil Sr. as Committeeman Sears
Forrest Taylor as The Skull (when in costume only)
Blackie Whiteford as Henchman