The Golden Boot Awards were an American acknowledgement of achievement honoring actors, actresses, and crew members who made significant contributions to the genre of Westerns in television and film. The award was sponsored and presented by the Motion Picture & Television Fund. Money raised at the award banquet was used to help finance various services offered by the Fund to those in the entertainment industry.
Sunset Carson was an American B-western star of the 1940s.
Sunset Carson Rides Again is a 1948 American Western film produced and directed by Oliver Drake and shot on his own ranch. Filmed in 1947 in Kodachrome on 16mm film, the film was the first of Drake's Yucca Pictures Corporation to star Sunset Carson. The film was released by Astor Pictures Corporation in 35mm Cinecolor. The film follows Bob Ward as he is rescued by a man named Sunset Carson, who Bob believes murdered his father.
The Marshal of Windy Hollow is a 1972 American Western film directed by Jerry Whittington and starring Sunset Carson. The film is unique in that it reunites several well-known B movie actors from 1940s Westerns for one last outing.
Hell's Crossroads is a 1957 American Western film directed by Franklin Adreon and starring Stephen McNally, Peggie Castle, and Robert Vaughn. The film's sets were designed by the art director Frank Arrigo.
Marshal of Reno is a 1944 American Western film directed by Wallace Grissell starring Wild Bill Elliott in the role of Red Ryder. It was the second of twenty-three Red Ryder feature films that would be produced by Republic Pictures. The picture was shot on the studio’s back lot along with outdoor locations at Iverson Ranch, 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Call of the Rockies is a 1944 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Robert Creighton Williams. The film stars Smiley Burnette, Sunset Carson, Harry Woods, Kirk Alyn, Ellen Hall and Frank Jaquet. The film was released on July 14, 1944, by Republic Pictures.
Bordertown Trail is a 1944 American Western film directed by Lesley Selander and written by Robert Creighton Williams and Jesse Duffy. The film stars Smiley Burnette, Sunset Carson, Weldon Heyburn, Addison Richards, Francis McDonald and Jack Luden. The film was released on August 11, 1944, by Republic Pictures.
Bandits of the Badlands is a 1945 American Western film directed by Thomas Carr and written by Doris Schroeder. The film stars Sunset Carson, Peggy Stewart, Si Jenks, John Merton, Forrest Taylor and Wade Crosby. The film was released on September 14, 1945, by Republic Pictures.
Gun Battle at Monterey is a 1957 American Western film directed by Carl K. Hittleman and Sidney Franklin and starring Sterling Hayden.
Law of the Panhandle is a 1950 American Western film directed by Lewis D. Collins and starring Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Adams and Riley Hill.
Mule Train is a 1950 American Western film directed by John English and written by Gerald Geraghty. The film stars Gene Autry, Sheila Ryan, Robert Livingston, Frank Jaquet, Vince Barnett and Syd Saylor. The film was released on February 22, 1950, by Columbia Pictures.
The Painted Trail is a 1938 American Western film directed by Robert F. Hill and starring Tom Keene, Eleanor Stewart and LeRoy Mason.
Laramie Mountains is a 1952 American Western film directed by Ray Nazarro and starring Charles Starrett, Jock Mahoney and Fred F. Sears. This was the sixty-second of 65 films in the Durango Kid series.
Fighting Mustang is a 1948 American Western film directed by Oliver Drake and written by Rita Ross. The film stars Sunset Carson, Al Terry, Pat Starling, Felice Richmond, Polly McKay and William Val. The film was released on February 20, 1948, by Astor Pictures.
Wolf Call is a 1939 American Western film directed by George Waggner and starring John Carroll, Movita and George Lynn. A New York playboy is sent by his father to investigate his radium mine in Canada.
Harmony Trail is a 1944 American Western film directed by Robert Emmett Tansey and starring Ken Maynard, Eddie Dean and Ruth Roman. Its early distribution was limited, and it was given a fuller release in 1947 by Astor Pictures under the alternative title of White Stallion.
Deadline is a 1948 American Western film directed by Oliver Drake and starring Sunset Carson, Al Terry and Pat Starling.
Rio Grande is a 1949 American western film directed by Norman Sheldon and starring Sunset Carson, Lee Morgan and Bobby Clack. It was distributed by the low-budget company Astor Pictures. It was shot on location in San Ygnacio, Texas and at the Oliver Drake Ranch in California.
The Last of the Clintons is a 1935 American western film directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Harry Carey, Betty Mack and Victor Potel. It was the last film released by the Poverty Row studio Ajax Pictures before it closed down.
