COWBOY FROM SUNDOWN (1940) Tex Ritter, Patty Moran & Roscoe Ates | Western | B&W

The Cowboy from Sundown is a 1940 American Western film directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and written by Roland Lynch and Robert Emmett Tansey. The film stars Tex Ritter, Roscoe Ates, Carleton Young, George Pembroke, Patsy Moran and Pauline Haddon. The film was released on May 9, 1940, by Monogram Pictures.

SYNOPSIS
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then, Sheriff Tex Rockett is forced to quarantine all the cattle on the local ranches because of a hoof-and-mouth disease outbreak. Steve Davis herds his cattle to the railhead anyway, and Tex is forced to arrest him. Urged on by the banker's son, Nick Cuttler, the angry ranchers storm the jail, but Steve's sister Bee persuades them to await the trial. Steve, with Nick's help, breaks jail and is told he must kill Tex to aid the ranchers. Meanwhile, government man Bret Stockton and Tex see Nick and his men treating cattle in an unusual way. Tex finally proves that the Cuttlers have been treating the cattle with acid to give a false impression of the hoof-and-mouth disease.

CAST & CREW
Tex Ritter as Tex Rockett
Roscoe Ates as Gloomy Day
Carleton Young as Nick Cuttler
George Pembroke as Cylus Cuttler
Patsy Moran as Prunella Wallaby
Pauline Haddon as Bee Davis
Glenn Strange as Bret Stockton
Slim Andrews as Judge Hank Pritchard
Bud Osborne as Pronto Parsons
Joe McGuinn as Rip Carter
Dave O'Brien as Steve Davis
Chick Hannan as Pete
Tris Coffin as Ben Varco

Directed by: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Screenplay by: Roland Lynch, Robert Emmett Tansey
Story by: Roland Lynch
Produced by: Edward Finney
Cinematography: Marcel Le Picard
Edited by: Russell F. Schoengarth
Music by: Frank Sanucci
Production Company: Monogram Pictures
Distributed by: Monogram Pictures
Release Date: May 9, 1940
Running Time: 57 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English