Name: Sunset Trail
Genre: Adventure, Western
Released: 1939-02-24
Duration: 69 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: William Boyd, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Russell Hayden, Charlotte Wynters, Jan Clayton

Sunset Trail

CASSIDY PLAYS AN UNDERCOVER GAME!

Disguising himself as a milquetoast Easterner who writes Western novels, Hoppy enrolls in a dude ranch in order to unmask the murderer of the owner's husband.

AdventureWestern

DirectorLesley Selander

WritersNorman Houston, Clarence E. Mulford

StatusReleased

LanguageEnglish

Release DateFebruary 24, 1939

Runtime1h 9m

Hopalong Cassidy Collection

Includes: Hop-a-long Cassidy, The Eagle's Brood, Bar 20 Rides Again, Heart of the West, Call of the Prairie, Three on the Trail, Hopalong Cassidy Returns, Trail Dust, Borderland, Hills of Old Wyoming, North of the Rio Grande, Rustlers' Valley, Hopalong Rides Again, Texas Trail, Partners of the Plains, Cassidy of Bar 20, Heart of Arizona, Bar 20 Justice, Pride of the West, In Old Mexico, The Frontiersmen, Sunset Trail, Silver on the Sage, Renegade Trail, Range War, Law of the Pampas, Santa Fe Marshal, The Showdown, Hidden Gold, Stagecoach War, Three Men from Texas, Doomed Caravan, In Old Colorado, Border Vigilantes, Pirates on Horseback, Wide Open Town, Riders of the Timberline, Stick to Your Guns, Twilight on the Trail, Outlaws of the Desert, Secret of the Wastelands, Undercover Man, Lost Canyon, Hoppy Serves a Writ, Border Patrol, Leather Burners, Colt Comrades, Bar 20, False Colors, Riders of the Deadline, Texas Masquerade, Lumberjack, Mystery Man, Forty Thieves, Fool's Gold, The Devil's Playground, Unexpected Guest, Dangerous Venture, The Marauders, Hoppy's Holiday, Silent Conflict, The Dead Don't Dream, Sinister Journey, Borrowed Trouble, False Paradise, Strange Gamble

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

February 25, 20256/10

When a stagecoach is robbed and a passenger murdered, the boss of the company asks his pal “Hoppalong” (William Boyd) and his friend “Windy” (‘Gabby’ Hayes) to travel, incognito, to get to the bottom of things. We know that “Keller” (Robert Fiske) is the man behind the crimes and that he has stolen $30,000 from the now dead husband of “Ann” (Charlotte Wynters) but he is not expecting this great milk-sop of a dandy to arrive replete with bow-tie, and so “Hoppy” is able to infiltrate the town and observe just how the stolen cash is being laundered through it’s casino. Needless to say, neither “Ann” nor daughter “Dorrie” (Jan Clayton) are best pleased with this hapless man, but that is bound to change once he gets onto the scent of the perpetrators and brings them to book. Of course the result is that certain, yes, but this is still a solid adventure western with plenty of action, duplicity and Fiske makes for quite a decent baddie as things hot up to a well staged conclusion where luckily nobody’s aim is much good. Boyd is competent here and Hayes serves well as his lively foil and for an hour it’s an amiable story of greed versus good.