Bad Men of the Border (1945)
Bordertown Thrills!
55 min
Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby Grant, a former singer from Montana who had earlier acted under the name Robert Stanton. The series, Universal's last attempt at competing with Republic Pictures' many streamlined B-Westerns, also featured the bucolic Fuzzy Knight as Grant's sidekick. Grant and Knight are undercover U.S. marshals tracking down a gang of counterfeiters. To their surprise, they are soon assisted by a beautiful Mexican dancehall performer, Dolores Mendoza (Armida), who proves to be an undercover agent as well, in her case for the Mexican rurales headed by Captain Garcia (Francis McDonald).
- Release date
- June 1, 1945
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Kirby Grant as Ted Cameron
- Fuzzy Knight as Mortimer P. Rockabye Jones
- Armida as Dolores Mendoza
- John Eldredge as Bart Breslow
- Barbara Sears as Marie Manning
- Edward Howard as Ace Morgan
- Francis McDonald as Captain Jose Garcia
- Soledad Jiménez as Estrella
- Sam Appel as Sanchez
- Roy Brent as Ed - Henchman
Crew
- Wallace Fox · Director
- Adele Buffington · Writer
- Maury Gertsman · Cinematographer
- Philip Cahn · Editor