A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Sunset Trail
(1924) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4920 feet
Directed by Ernst Laemmle

Cast: William Desmond [Happy Hobo], Gareth Hughes [Collie King], Lucille Hutton [Louise Lacharme], S.E. Jennings [Silent Saunders], Clark Comstock [Constable Hicks], Albert J. Smith [Dick Fenlow], William A. Steele (William Steele) [Brand Williams], The Universal Ranch Riders

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [A Universal Picture]. / Scenario by Wyndham Gittens, from the adaptation by Isadore Bernstein of the novel Overland Red by Henry Herbert Knibbs. Cinematography by Jackson Rose. / © 5 September 1924 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP20558]. Released 2 November 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Comedy: Western.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 2 December 2023.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 46 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.