The Sunset Trail (1924 film)

The Sunset Trail
Directed by	Ernst Laemmle
Written by	Isadore Bernstein Wyndham Gittens
Based on	Overland Red, a Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail 1914 novel by Henry Herbert Knibbs[1]
Starring	William Desmond Gareth Hughes Lucille Hutton
Cinematography	Jackson Rose
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	November 2, 1924 (1924-11-02)
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Sunset Trail is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Ernst Laemmle and starring William Desmond, Gareth Hughes, and Lucille Hutton.[1][2]

Plot summary

Cast

• William Desmond as Happy Hobo
• Gareth Hughes as Collie King
• Lucille Hutton as Louise Lacharme
• S.E. Jennings as Silent Saunders
• Clark Comstock as Constable Hicks
• Albert J. Smith as Dick Fenlow
• William Steele as Brand William

Preservation

With no prints of The Sunset Trail located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film.

Bibliography

• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: The Sunset Trail at silentera.com
2. Munden, p. 777
3. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Sunset Trail

External links

• The Sunset Trail at IMDb
• The Sunset Trail at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films