Sunset on the Desert
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Cast & Crew
Joseph Kane
Roy Rogers
George "gabby" Hayes
Lynne Carver
Frank M. Thomas
Beryl Wallace
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After a ten-year absence, cowboy Roy Rogers returns to his hometown of South Creek to investigate stories that an old family friend, Judge Alvin Kirby, is corrupt. Rogers learns that Tom, the son of rancher Jim Prentiss, was shot by deputy Bill Sloane after Prentiss did not pay an old tax bill. Prentiss' ranch was subsequently sold to attorney Ramsay McCall. McCall uses the tax ploy to force out the old-time ranchers, and when his gunslinger Sloane was arrested, McCall blackmailed Kirby into setting him free. Roy does not know that Sloane is his exact double, and so is mystified by the hostile reception he gets when he and his pal, Gabby Whittaker, rescue Prentiss from more of McCall's thugs. In town, Roy is further confused when Julie Craig, Sloane's girl friend, welcomes him back, for McCall had ordered Sloane to leave town after the murder. Roy then approaches Ann, Kirby's niece and Roy's childhood sweetheart, but she also believes that he is Sloane and sends him away. When Roy and Gabby finally realize that people are mistaking Roy for Sloane, Roy decides to impersonate Sloane to get to the bottom of the mystery surrounding Kirby's actions. That night, after a dance at which Roy's attentions to Ann arouse the jealousy of both Julie and Bob Nolan, Ann's suitor, Julie threatens Roy by telling him that she will expose Kirby's dealings with McCall if he continues to see Ann. Julie reveals that Ann's father was an embezzler who stole county funds, and that Ann's ranch will be taken away if anyone finds out. The next day, Louie Meade, one of McCall's henchmen, brings Roy to McCall's office, where Roy overhears them planning to kill Prentiss. McCall orders Roy to leave town for good, after which Roy and Gabby rescue Prentiss and his friend, George Belknap, from the thugs. McCall, suspicious of Roy's behavior, sends Julie to the real Sloane's hideout, while Roy goes to the old Kirby homestead to search for evidence. There he finds a receipt proving that Ann's father paid back all of the money he embezzled, and when Ann arrives, he is also able to prove his identity. He sends her back to Bob's home to stop the ranchers, who are forming a vigilante committee to run McCall's gang out of town, while he rushes to Kirby's office. He shows Kirby the receipt, then gets into a fistfight with Sloane. While Gabby, Kirby and Roy are in a gun battle with McCall and his men, Bob and the ranchers arrive, and when Bob sees Sloane with McCall, he disbelieves Ann's story about Roy. Bob is forced to change his mind, however, after he shoots Sloane and Roy appears. With the gang rounded up, the ranchers make peace with Kirby, and Roy declares that after the rodeo season, he will be back to form a new Kirby-Rogers partnership with Ann.
Director
Joseph Kane
Cast
Roy Rogers
George "gabby" Hayes
Lynne Carver
Frank M. Thomas
Beryl Wallace
Glenn Strange
Douglas Fowley
Fred Burns
Roy Barcroft
Henry Wills
Forrest Taylor
The Sons Of The Pioneers:
Bob Nolan
Pat Brady
Hugh Farr
Karl Farr
Tim Spencer
Lloyd Perryman
Tom Seidel
Ed Cassidy
Francis Sayles
Marjorie Kane
Harry Woods
Frank Wilder
Patsy Moran
Trigger
Dorothy Christy
Crew
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Working titles of this film were Pal O' Mine and Sunset on the Trail. Modern sources include Bob Woodward and Cactus Mack in the cast.
