Riding the Sunset Trail

Riding the Sunset Trail

60 mins | Western | Oct. 31, 1941

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.

Riding the Sunset Trail

60 mins | Western | Oct. 31, 1941

Riding the Sunset Trail
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.
Producers Monogram Pictures
Original title Riding the Sunset Trail
Directors Robert Emmett Tansey
Writers Frances Kavanaugh, Robert Emmett Tansey

Cast

Tom Keene

as Tom Sterling

Frank Yaconelli

as Lopez Mendoza

Betty Miles

as Betty Dawson

Slim Andrews

as Lawyer Jasper Raines

Sugar Dawn

as Sugar Dawson

Kenne Duncan

as Jay Lynch

Tom Seidel

as Henchman Bronco West

James Sheridan

as Henchman Rip Carson

Earl Douglas

as Henchman Drifter Smith

Tom London

as Sheriff Hays

Gene Alsace

as 'Pecos' Dean,

Fred Hoose

as Judge Little

Jimmy Aubrey

as Jim Dawson (uncredited)

Jack Casey

as Deputy (uncredited)