The Sundowners (1950 film)
1950 film
- Alan Le May
- George Templeton
- Robert Preston
- John Drew Barrymore
- Chill Wills
- Jack Elam
- Alberto Colombo
- Leonid Raab
- Rudy Schrager
Production
company
company
Le May-Templeton Pictures
Release dates
- 2 February 1950 (1950-02-02) (United States)
- 4 May 1950 (1950-05-04) (New York City)
Running time
The Sundowners is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film directed by George Templeton, starring Robert Preston and featuring John Drew Barrymore (billed as John Barrymore, Jr.), Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, and Jack Elam.[1] The film is also known as Thunder in the Dust in the United Kingdom.
Plot
A rash of cattle rustling leads to a range war, centered on the disputed grazing rights to a fertile canyon. Hostilities escalate with the arrival of a gunman, who disrupts both sides in the conflict.
Cast
A 1950 film review[2] lists the cast as follows:
- Robert Preston as James Cloud ('Kid Wichita')
- Robert Sterling as Tom Cloud
- John Drew Barrymore (in his film debut) as Jeff Cloud
- Chill Wills as Sam Beers
- Cathy Downs as Kathleen Boyce
- John Litel as John Gall
- Jack Elam as Earl Boyce
- Don Haggerty as Elmer Gall
- Stanley Price as Steve Fletcher
- Clem Fuller as Turkey
- Frank Cordell as Jim Strake
- Dave Kashner as Gill Batson
Soundtrack
- "O'Riley" (Written by Alberto Colombo)
References
External links
- The Sundowners at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- The Sundowners at IMDb
- The Sundowners at AllMovie
- The Sundowners at the TCM Movie Database
- The Sundowners is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
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