Riding the Sunset Trail (1941)
1941 · Feature film · 55 min · dir. Robert Emmett Tansey
A THRILLING NEW ADVENTURE
- Western
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Robert Emmett Tansey
- Writer
- Robert Emmett Tansey
- Studio
- Monogram Pictures
- Released
- 1941-10-31
- Running time
- 55 minutes
Cast & crew
- Robert Emmett Tansey Director
Tom Keene
Frank Yaconelli
Betty Miles
Slim Andrews
Sugar Dawn
Kenne Duncan
Tom Seidel
James Sheridan
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★ · Tom Keene - Smiling to the End · Poohbah70 · 2020-01-08
Smiling Tom Keene wasn't much of an actor, but he's passable here, especially with a half decent supporting cast. Frank Yaconelli, is stuck with a Mexican accent and providing some idiot humor which interferes with the western action - the script writer/producer/director just didn't get the idea that a little goes a long way. Beautiful and talented Betty Miles does a good acting and riding job as the obligatory woman on the range - IMDb tells us that she was an accomplished horsewoman and between 1937-44 appeared in 13 films before going off to perform in circuses and then becoming a school…
★★ · Lackluster Western Disapoints · bobsluckycat · 2015-05-11
George Duryea (aka Tom Keene & Richard Powers) appears in the 4th of 8 in a series of Westerns for the 1941 - 1942 season for Monogram pictures and produced, directed and written or co-written by schlockmeister Robert Tansey. As Tom Keene, he sort of walks through this film in a lackluster manner (sometimes literally). Keene made a lot of sound Westerns starting with 1930 through 1933 efforts at Pathe and Radio Pictures (aka RKO Radio) and which were some of the best sound westerns of the early sound era. He hit the wall after that in 1934 with "Our Daily Bread" a social drama on a Utopian…
