Riding the Sunset Trail

Riding the Sunset Trail

A THRILLING NEW ADVENTURE

1941 · 60 min · ★ 5.0 · Western

Before changing his name to Richard Powers, cowboy hero Tom Keene spent the waning days of his stardom at Monogram, churning out westerns like Riding the Sunset Trail. When ingenue Betty Dawson (Betty Miles) and her kid sister Sugar (Sugar Dawn) are cheated out of their cattle ranch, Tom Sterling (Keene) and his sidekick Mendoza (Frank Yaconelli) vow to get the ranch back for the girls. This requires Sterling to cross six-guns with Pecos Dean (Gene Alcase), a former friend who'd turned bad.

Directed by Robert Emmett Tansey · Written by Robert Emmett Tansey

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Tom Keene Tom Sterling
Frank Yaconelli Lopez Mendoza
Betty Miles Betty Dawson
Slim Andrews Lawyer Jasper Raines
Sugar Dawn Sugar Dawson
Kenne Duncan Jay Lynch
Tom Seidel Henchman Bronco West
James Sheridan Henchman Rip Carson
Earl Douglas Henchman Drifter Smith
Tom London Sheriff Hays
Gene Alsace 'Pecos' Dean,
Fred Hoose Judge Little

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