As the Sun Went Down is a 1919 American silent Western film directed by E. Mason Hopper and starring Edith Storey, Lew Cody, and Harry S. Northrup.

She is in love with Faro Bill, a prospector who has promised to wed Billy once he strikes enough gold.

One day the stage brings a preacher, Albert Atherton, and a destitute actor and his wife, Gerald and Mabel Morton, and their infant daughter to town.

He arrives in Rattlesnake Gulch, and forms a team with a local ne'er-do-well, Pizen Ike, and gets him to agree to help in his plan to cheat Morton out of his claim.

Arbuthnot has brought fake love letters from Mabel, and when he reveals them, Ike insults her in front of everyone.