Paramount Pictures
Hopalong Cassidy Collection
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.
- Original title
- Sunset Trail
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Feb 25, 2025 · via TMDB
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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William Boyd
Hopalong Cassidy
George 'Gabby' Hayes
Windy Halliday
Russell Hayden
Lucky Jenkins
Charlotte Wynters
Ann Marsh
Jan Clayton
Dorrie Marsh
Robert Fiske
Monte Keller
Kenneth Harlan
John Marsh
Kathryn Sheldon
Abigail Snodgrass
Maurice Cass
E. Prescott Furbush
Alphonse Ethier
Superintendent
Glenn Strange
Bouncer
Jack Rockwell
Stage Driver Bill (uncredited)
Fred Burns
Trail Patrol Member
Horace B. Carpenter
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Jim Corey
Cowboy
Frank Ellis
Cowboy
Tom London
Jake
Charles Murphy
Stage Guard #2
Cliff Parkinson
Stage Guard #1
Jack Rockwell
Stage Driver Bill
Jim Toney
Cowboy
Bob Woodward
Barfly
Russell Harlan
Cinematography
Lesley Selander
Director
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