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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