Riding the Sunset Trail (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.
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Tom KeeneTom Sterling
Frank YaconelliLopez Mendoza
Betty MilesBetty DawsonSlim AndrewsLawyer Jasper RainesSugar DawnSugar Dawson
Kenne DuncanJay Lynch
Tom SeidelHenchman Bronco West
James SheridanHenchman Rip CarsonEarl DouglasHenchman Drifter Smith
Tom LondonSheriff HaysGene Alsace'Pecos' Dean,Fred HooseJudge LittleMovie DNA
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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.