The Sundowners (1950 film)

StarringCinematographyWinton C. HochEdited byJack OgilvieMusic byDistributed byEagle-Lion Films84 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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.

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.

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

• "O'Riley" (Written by Alberto Colombo)

• 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