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The Sundowners is a 1950 American Technicolor Western film directed by George Templeton, starring Robert Preston and featuring John Drew Barrymore (billed as John Barrymore, Jr.), Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, and Jack Elam. [1] The film is also known as Thunder in the Dust in the United Kingdom.
Barrymore's film career began with a small role in The Sundowners (1950), a Western with Robert Preston. [7] As he was a minor he needed his mother's permission. His fee was $7,500.
The Sundowners was produced and directed by Fred Zinnemann, adapted by Isobel Lennart from Jon Cleary's 1952 novel of the same name, with Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Mervyn Johns, Dina Merrill, Michael Anderson Jr., and Chips Rafferty.
Preston made his screen debut in 1938, in the crime dramas King of Alcatraz (1938) and Illegal Traffic. [6] The studio ordered Preston to stop using his family name of Meservey. [7] As Robert Preston, the name by which he was known for his entire professional career, he appeared in many Hollywood films, predominantly but not exclusively Westerns.
The Sundowners: George Templeton: Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, Chill Wills, Cathy Downs, John Litel, Jack Elam, Don Haggerty, Stanley Price, Frank Cordell, John Drew Barrymore: traditional Western Sunset in the West: William Witney: Roy Rogers: Singing cowboy Western Surrender: Allan Dwan
Piper Laurie's film debut Love Happy: David Miller: Marx Brothers, Vera-Ellen, Raymond Burr: Comedy: United Artists. Last Marx Brothers film Love That Brute: Alexander Hall: Jean Peters, Paul Douglas, Cesar Romero: Comedy: 20th Century Fox: Lucky Losers: William Beaudine: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Hillary Brooke: Comedy: Monogram
The Sundowners (band), a 1960s American rock and roll band; Sundowner (band), the solo acoustic project of Chris McCaughan; The Sundowners (Australian band), an Australian "bush band" "Sundowner," a 2011 track by British electronic artist Blanck Mass, rearranged for the London Symphony Orchestra for use in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony
Title Director Cast Genre Note The Dark at the Top of the Stairs: Delbert Mann: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Shirley Knight, Angela Lansbury: Drama: Warner Bros.; from William Inge play