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The Cowboy from Sundown (1940) Online
Original Title :
The Cowboy from Sundown
Genre :
Movie / Action / Adventure / Music / Western
Year :
1940
Directror :
Spencer Gordon Bennet
Cast :
Tex Ritter,Roscoe Ates,Carleton Young
Writer :
Roland Lynch,Robert Emmett Tansey
Type :
Movie
Time :
57min
Rating :
5.1/10
The Cowboy from Sundown (1940) Online

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.
Complete credited cast:
Tex Ritter Tex Ritter - Sheriff Tex Rockett
Roscoe Ates Roscoe Ates - Deputy Gloomy Day
Carleton Young Carleton Young - Nick Cuttler
George Pembroke George Pembroke - Cylus Cuttler (as Geo. Pembroke)
Patsy Moran Patsy Moran - Prunella Wallaby
Pauline Haddon Pauline Haddon - Bee Davis (as Pauline Hadden)
Glenn Strange Glenn Strange - Bret Stockton
Slim Andrews Slim Andrews - Judge Hank Pritchard (as 'Slim' Andrews)
Bud Osborne Bud Osborne - Pronto Parsons
Joe McGuinn Joe McGuinn - Rip Carter
Dave O'Brien Dave O'Brien - Steve Davis
Chick Hannan Chick Hannan - Pete - Henchman
Tristram Coffin Tristram Coffin - Ben Varco

The earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in New York City Sunday 19 December 1948 on WATV (Channel 13), in Cincinnati Saturday 13 August 1949 on WCPO (Channel 7), and in Philadelphia Thursday 22 September 1949 on Frontier Playhouse on WPTZ (Channel 3).


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Jairani

Jairani

Cowboy From Sundown casts Tex Ritter as a local sheriff with some disagreeable duty to perform. He's got to quarantine various herds of cattle for hoof and mouth disease and the ranchers are already facing drought. Which is just great for banker George Pembroke, his bottom feeding son Carleton Young and their lawyer Tristram Coffin. These guys are looking to pick up ranches at a fire sale rate and they've even used their influences to prevent the ranchers from getting government loans to help them over the rough patch.

Not only that Young is making a move on Pauline Haddon who fancies Sheriff Ritter instead, but she's a cattle rancher also. In fact except for Deputy Roscoe Ates, Tex is pretty friendless through most of this film.

Monogram would have been better to put this in a modern west setting. Back in the day there were no agencies giving out government loans, but during the New Deal there certainly were. It's a major flaw in a film that was tailor made for the New Deal times.

Still it's an OK B western that I'm sure found an audience in 1940 with a plot that resonated the present.