''Sundown Slim'' is a 1920 American silent

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film starring

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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 (

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). The adjoining sheep ranch is owned by David Loring (

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). Fadeaway ( Charles Le Moyne), 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

as Sundown Slim * Genevieve Blinn as Mrs. Fernando * Ted Brooks as Billy Corliss * Frances Conrad as Eleanor Loring *

as Jack Corliss (as J.M. Foster) * Mignonne Golden as Anita * Joe Harris as Fernando (as Joseph Harris) * Ed Jones as Sheriff *

as Loring (as Duke Lee) * Charles Le Moyne 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

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.

References

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* {{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