Call of the Rockies

Call of the Rockies

LUSTY ACTION and ROARIN' LAUGHS...with your favorite western wildcats...SMILEY...and SUNSET...to the tune of spittin' six-guns and the rhythm of galloping hoofs!

NR 1944 · 56 min · ★ 6.3 · Western

Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things right for a mining town under siege. Galloping hooves, spittin' six shooters, and all manner of disreputable behavior ensue.

Directed by Lesley Selander · Written by Robert Creighton Williams

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