Excellent cast and director create and perform this excellent script, written by the director, Robert N. Bradbury, Bob Steele's father.
Like so many Bob Steele movies, especially written and directed by his father, it begins with a seemingly innocuous and/or pleasant scene, this time a horse race.
Soon, though, the meat of the story is reached, though with plenty of twists and turns, including a run of luck in a gambling hall (with Horace Murphy playing the house dealer), all perfectly plausible, and well played by some of the best among veteran Western performers.
Perhaps "Sundown Saunders" was intended only to be a program filler, a minor film for the Saturday matinee kids, but it holds up well, even after 87 years.
Bob Steele just got better and better as an actor, obviously serious about his craft. His leading lady, Marie Burton but called here Catherine Cotter, was a lovely and very expressive actress who should have been cast in at least a hundred more roles; her mini-bio here has almost no information but a reviewer says she had been a radio star.
The sheriff is played by the great Earl Dwire, a remarkably versatile actor who could be villain, comic relief, or lawman.
The print of "Sundown Saunders" at YouTube is too dark, but very well worth the effort to watch. I hope you do.
Like so many Bob Steele movies, especially written and directed by his father, it begins with a seemingly innocuous and/or pleasant scene, this time a horse race.
Soon, though, the meat of the story is reached, though with plenty of twists and turns, including a run of luck in a gambling hall (with Horace Murphy playing the house dealer), all perfectly plausible, and well played by some of the best among veteran Western performers.
Perhaps "Sundown Saunders" was intended only to be a program filler, a minor film for the Saturday matinee kids, but it holds up well, even after 87 years.
Bob Steele just got better and better as an actor, obviously serious about his craft. His leading lady, Marie Burton but called here Catherine Cotter, was a lovely and very expressive actress who should have been cast in at least a hundred more roles; her mini-bio here has almost no information but a reviewer says she had been a radio star.
The sheriff is played by the great Earl Dwire, a remarkably versatile actor who could be villain, comic relief, or lawman.
The print of "Sundown Saunders" at YouTube is too dark, but very well worth the effort to watch. I hope you do.