Sunset in Eldorado
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Cast & Crew
Frank Mcdonald
Roy Rogers
Trigger
George "gabby" Hayes
Dale Evans
Hardie Albright
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Synopsis
Tour company worker Lucille Wiley tires of merely talking about the Wild West and longs to go on an adventure. Unknown to Lucille's fiancé, the rich and fussy Cecil Phelps, Lucille's grandmother was Kansas Kate, a saloon singer who lived in El Dorado, one of the tour destinations. Determined to live a little, Lucille sneaks away on the tour bus bound for El Dorado, but is found out and followed by Cecil and her aunt Dolly. When Cecil and Dolly refuse to let Lucille continue on to El Dorado, which is now a ghost town, she sabotages Cecil's car and begins to walk the remaining nine miles. She is rescued by genial cowboy Roy Rogers, with whom she shares an immediate attraction. Roy and his horse Trigger tow the car to El Dorado, where Lucille begins to explore Kate's saloon, the Golden Nugget. There she meets old prospector Gabby, who tells her that she bears a striking resemblance to her lovely grandmother. As Lucille looks through Kate's trunk, she falls asleep and dreams of her grandmother: Kate is about to perform when Gabby rushes into the saloon to tell her that he has found gold. Kate, who grubstaked Gabby, is thrilled that she and her partner will be rich, and she tells her boyfriend, Golden Nugget owner Cyril Earle, that she, Gabby and her aunt Arabella will be traveling to Tucson to file the claim. Cyril plots with his henchmen, Lyle Fish and Buster Welch, to steal Gabby's map, but wandering cowboy Roy Rogers frightens off the masked men when they attack Kate's stagecoach. Cyril and his men succeed in kidnapping Gabby and stealing his map, however, while Roy is rescuing Kate's runaway coach. Back in town, Kate allows the naïve Roy to believe that she is a schoolteacher, and so Roy is angry when he subsequently learns that she is the singer at the notorious saloon. After Roy bests Buster in a fistfight, Cyril fires Buster and hires Roy to be Kate's bodyguard. Hoping to learn if Kate was in on the plot to steal Gabby's map, Roy accepts the job, and he and Kate soon cannot resist their romantic impulses. Cyril orders Buster to break up the couple if he wants his job back, but when Roy again beats up the thug, Buster reveals that Cyril has Gabby's map. Back at the saloon, Cyril pumps Gabby for information about his map, which is in code. Cyril then slips Gabby a "mickey," and shoots Buster with Roy's gun when he discovers the men searching his office for the map. After Roy is arrested for Buster's murder, Kate agrees to marry Cyril if he arranges for Roy's release. Cyril pretends to agree but orders his henchmen to kill Roy on his way out of town. Gabby helps Roy to escape and Roy prevents the wedding by beating Cyril in a fistfight. Cyril is then arrested and Roy and Kate happily sing together. After Lucille awakens from her dream, she confesses to Gabby that she does not want to marry Cecil. Realizing that Dolly is a meddler, just as Arabella was, Gabby tells the nosy aunt to mind her own business, and Roy offers to show Lucille the West.
Director
Frank Mcdonald
Cast
Roy Rogers
Trigger
George "gabby" Hayes
Dale Evans
Hardie Albright
Margaret Dumont
Roy Barcroft
Tom London
Stanley Price
Bob Wilke
Ed Cassidy
Dorothy Granger
Bob Nolan
Jack Rice
Hank Bell
Frederick Howard
George Barton
Tex Terry
Franklin Parker
Jack Kirk
Bert Moorhouse
Jack O'shea
Sayre Dearing
Bud Osborne
Edmund Cobb
Bob Robinson
Sam Ash
Joe Mcguinn
George Chesebro
Franklin Farnum
Charles Hamilton
Charles Soldani
Michael Gaddis
Peggy Miller
Estelle Etterre
Terry Frost
Jerome Sheldon
Timmy Hawkins
Harry Depp
Lucille Vance
Crew
Leon Abrams
William Bradford
John K. Butler
Dale Butts
Thomas A. Carman
Ken Carson
Larry Ceballos
Jack Drislane
Jack Elliott
J. Fletcher
Gordon Forster
Louis Gray
Robert Hays
Frank Hotaling
Frances Kyle
Lee Lukather
Howard Lydecker
Theodore Lydecker
Bob Mark
Henry I. Marshall
Tony Martinelli
John Mccarthy Jr.
George W. Meyer
Stanley Murphy
Joseph Novak
Adele Palmer
Gordon C. Schaefer
Morton Scott
Fred Stahl
John Stransky Jr.
Roy Wade
Howard Wilson
Film Details
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According to a May 29, 1945 Hollywood Reporter news item, this picture was partially filmed on location in Palmdale, CA. Modern sources include Gino Corrado, Frank Ellis, Tex Cooper and Bob Reeves in the cast.
