''Sundown Slim'' is a 1920 American
silent Western
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film starring
Harry Carey.
Plot
"Sundown Slim" Hicks (Harry Carey) leaves his life of
hobo-poet and starts in as ranch cook at the Concho cattle ranch owned by Jack Corliss (
J. Morris Foster
J. Morris Foster (September 9, 1881 – April 24, 1966) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1914 and 1923. He was born in Foxbert, Pennsylvania and died in Burbank, California.
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). The adjoining sheep ranch is owned by David Loring (
Duke R. Lee). Fadeaway (
Charles Le Moyne
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...
), a bad cowboy, insults Anita (Mignonne Golden), daughter of the chief sheepherder, and Sundown exacts reprisal. Billy (Ted Brooks), Sundown's pal, is induced by Fadeaway to rob a bank. Sundown takes the blame and goes to jail. In the feud between sheepmen and cattlemen, Billy is nursed by Anita. The two learn to care for each other, and when Sundown is released from jail and goes to Anita, he sees the situation and surrenders her to Billy, again taking up to lone trail.
Cast
*
Harry Carey as Sundown Slim
* Genevieve Blinn as Mrs. Fernando
* Ted Brooks as Billy Corliss
* Frances Conrad as Eleanor Loring
*
J. Morris Foster
J. Morris Foster (September 9, 1881 – April 24, 1966) was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1914 and 1923. He was born in Foxbert, Pennsylvania and died in Burbank, California.
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as Jack Corliss (as J.M. Foster)
* Mignonne Golden as Anita
* Joe Harris as Fernando (as Joseph Harris)
* Ed Jones as Sheriff
*
Duke R. Lee as Loring (as Duke Lee)
*
Charles Le Moyne
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...
as Fadeaway
* Otto Myers as Bud Shoop (as Otto Meyers)
* Ed Price as Shorty
Still summary
The film was summarized using stills in the January 1921 ''Film Fun'', an American
Western
Western may refer to:
Places
*Western, Nebraska, a village in the US
* Western, New York, a town in the US
*Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western world, countries that i ...
film magazine.
File:Sundown Slim (1920) - 1.jpg, Out of a filthy boxcar, onto the clean open range, comes "Sundown Slim" Hicks.
File:Sundown Slim (1920) - 2.jpg, Before getting a job as a ranch cook, Sundown had been a tramp-poet.
File:Sundown Slim (1920) - 3.jpg, Fadaway, a bad cowboy, starts an unprofitable argument with Sundown.
File:Sundown Slim (1920) - 4.jpg, The argument culminates in the shooting of Fadeaway by Sundown.
File:Sundown Slim (1920) - 5.jpg, Sundown accepts the blame for a crime committed by a pal, and goes to jail." The Sheriff (right) was played by Ed Jones, an American actor active in films from 1914 to 1939.
File:Sundown Slim (1920) - 6.jpg, After it is all over, Sundown surrenders the girl to his pal, and starts on his lone journey.
See also
*
Harry Carey filmography
This is a list of films featuring Harry Carey.
1910
* ''Bill Sharkey's Last Game''
* ''Gentleman Joe''
1912
* ''An Unseen Enemy'' as The Thief
* ''Two Daughters of Eve'' as In Audience
* ''Friends'' as Bob Kyne - the Prospector
* '' So Near ...
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, id=0011743, title=Sundown Slim
1920 films
1920 Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Val Paul
Silent American Western (genre) films
Universal Pictures films
1920s American films