Call of the Rockies

Call of the Rockies

🎞️ Movie 56 min US
โ˜… 7.3 /10 1944

LUSTY ACTION and ROARIN' LAUGHS...with your favorite western wildcats...SMILEY...and SUNSET...to the tune of spittin' six-guns and the rhythm of galloping hoofs!

Sunset Carson's first western and, despite the misleading video box that indicates otherwise, he was billed as Sonny Carson and was billed 2nd behind Smiley Burnette. Republic dropped the 'Sonny' but he was also billed beneath Burnette in three more films---Bordertown Trail, Code of the Prairie and Firebrands of Arizona---released between July and December of 1944, when Burnette and Republic parted company and Carson was given his own series that featured no continuing sidekick actor. Burnette was off the screen from that point until February of 1946 when he made the first of his co-starring Durango Kid films with Charles Starrett. This film finds Sunset Carson (Sunset Carson) meeting and teaming up with Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette) who is driving supplies in to Placer City for wealthy mining-equipment man J. B. Murdock (Harry Woods). Through a runaway horse ruse, the supplies are hi-jacked by Marjorie Malloy (Ellen Hall and her companion Ned Crane (Kirk Alyn'). Murdock has foreclosed on most of the miners on Round Nugget Hill and is withholding needed supplies from the rest. Marjorie and Crain are robbing Murdock's wagons to give supplies to the miners. Murdock and kindly-town doctor Lee ('Frank Jaquet') are in cahoots to take over all the local mining operations, but Sunset and Frog, with whiskers and posing as a French mining engineer, soon have all the wrongs righted.

Cast

Smiley Burnette
Smiley Burnette
Frog Millhouse
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Sunset Carson
Sunset Carson
Harry Woods
Harry Woods
J. B. Murdock
Kirk Alyn
Kirk Alyn
Ned Crane
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Ellen Hall
Marjorie Malloy
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Frank Jaquet
Doc Lee
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Charles Williams
Burton Witherspoon
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Jack Kirk
Sheriff
Tom London
Tom London
Henchman Hansen
Bob Kortman
Bob Kortman
Henchman Watson
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John MacBurnie
Cinematographer