Sunset Trail

Sunset Trail

24/2/1939 1h 9m 5.0/10

Overview

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.

Director

Lesley Selander

Top Billed Cast

George 'Gabby' Hayes

George 'Gabby' Hayes

Windy Halliday

William Boyd

William Boyd

Hopalong Cassidy

Robert Fiske

Robert Fiske

Monte Keller

Jan Clayton

Jan Clayton

Dorrie Marsh

Russell Hayden

Russell Hayden

Lucky Jenkins

Charlotte Wynters

Charlotte Wynters

Ann Marsh

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2/25/2025

6/10

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.

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