Thread: The Movie; Border Incident

The movie, Border Incident 1950 is going to be on next Thursday May 7th. at 7:00 pacific time and 9:30 Eastern.

It is a movie about when slave labor from across the border was not only a crime but an injustice. Not the norm of today.

Anyway I saw it a while back and hope I catch it again.

This is the link to a television guide. This is the listings for my local Comcast listings. If you click around I think you should be able to find your local listings. Mine shows the movie on channel 501, The Turner Classic Movie Channel;

http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlisti...=1241748000000



I'm going to increase my odds of seeing it with, Karen's Countdown Timer II. It is a free timer program that lets you enter things like when your laundry will be done so you can get to the laundry room on time.

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptcount2.asp

Very interesting! It was made in 1949, and here is what I have found so far.

Director Anthony Mann is probably best remembered for the series of gritty westerns he made with James Stewart in the 1950s. However prior to this he directed some memorable film noire classics of which "Border Incident" is one of the best. Devoid of the usual film noire "femme fatale", it is nonetheless a dark and unusually (for the time) violent film.

The plot concerns the efforts of the Mexican and American Immigration Services to stem the flow of illegal farm workers crossing the border into the US illegally. To this end the Mexicans assign Pablo Rodrgues (Ricardo Montalban) and the Americans, Jack Bearnes (George Murphy) to work under cover to find the sources of both the illegal traffic and the grizzly murders of workers crossing back into Mexico with their earnings.

They discover that the head of the operation is Owen Parkson (Howard DaSilva). His cohorts include Arnold Moss and Alfonso Bedoya as a couple of ruthless murders, Charles McGraw and Arthur Hunnicutt as his foreman and assistant and Sig Ruman as his Mexican "recruiter".

The film is both dark (most of the film takes place at night) and violent. At the beginning we see the brutal stabbings of several helpless workers returning home by Moss, Bedoya and company and the unceremonious dumping of the bodies into a pool of quicksand. Later, one of the characters meets a particularly gruesome end under a large farm cultivator.

Montalbon and Murphy in particular, turn in excellent performances. Both live on life's edges in their efforts to bring the criminals to justice. Sig Ruman is very good as the brutal Mexican contact. McGraw walks away with the villain's honors as the devious foreman. In fact the whole cast is excellent.

Also, here is the trailer for those interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_fpVcPtzY

The movie, "Border Incident" is on if anyone is interested.

It is an old 1950's movie and a real look into the past. Back then the United States was full of honest American's that supplied much of the world with the things that truly mattered. We manged fairly well on or own back then...


as we would now!!!

Originally Posted by StokeyBob

The movie, "Border Incident" is on if anyone is interested.

It is an old 1950's movie and a real look into the past. Back then the United States was full of honest American's that supplied much of the world with the things that truly mattered. We manged fairly well on or own back then...


as we would now!!!

I set the DVR to record. Thank you very much for the heads up. As a youngster, I am just now getting into the old movies. I watched Citizen Kane for the first time the other night and I was blown away. Welles was WAAAY ahead of his time on that one.

Citizen Kane was a good one.

This movie, "Border Incident" took place a long time ago.

I sort of figure that back then most of the farm and restaurant labor was legal and the illegal labor was a smaller proportion. Now the criminals in business seem to prefer the illegal labor. They seem to have no problem getting the criminals in the government to aid and abet the whole situation.

The corrupt politicians in Mexico used to bring on themselves loads of shame for them and for their country. They have nothing on the lowlifes we now have here in law enforcement and many others holding public office.

When we now witness crime we have no one to call it seems.



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