Sundown Slim

Sundown Slim
Sundown Slim
	Still from film
Directed by	Val Paul
Written by	Henry H. Knibbs
Produced by	Harry Carey
Starring	Harry Carey
Cinematography	Harry M. Fowler
Distributed by	Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date	October 1920;
Running time	5 reels (approximately 50 minutes)
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English intertitles

Sundown Slim is a 1920 American silent Western film starring Harry Carey.^[1]

Plot edit

"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). The adjoining sheep ranch is owned by David Loring (Duke R. Lee). 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.^[2]

Cast edit

Harry Carey as Sundown Slim
Genevieve Blinn as Mrs. Fernando
Ted Brooks as Billy Corliss
Frances Conrad as Eleanor Loring
J. Morris Foster 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 as Fadeaway
Otto Myers as Bud Shoop (as Otto Meyers)
Ed Price as Shorty

Still summary edit

The film was summarized using stills in the January 1921 Film Fun, an American Western film magazine.

Out of a filthy boxcar, onto the clean open range, comes "Sundown Slim" Hicks.^[2]
Before getting a job as a ranch cook, Sundown had been a tramp-poet.^[2]
Fadaway, a bad cowboy, starts an unprofitable argument with Sundown.^[2]
The argument culminates in the shooting of Fadeaway by Sundown.^[2]
Sundown accepts the blame for a crime committed by a pal, and goes to jail."^[2] The Sheriff (right) was played by Ed Jones, an American actor active in films from 1914 to 1939.
After it is all over, Sundown surrenders the girl to his pal, and starts on his lone journey.^[2]