Bad Men of the Border (1945)

Bad Men of the Border

1945

Western

Synopsis

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).

Credits

Director

Wallace Fox

Cast

Armida as Dolores Mendoza

Barbara Sears as Marie Manning

Charles Stevens as Juan

Edward Howard as Ace Morgan (as Edward M. Howard)

Francis McDonald as Captain Jose Garcia

Fuzzy Knight as Mortimer P. Rockabye Jones

John Eldredge as Bart Breslow

Kirby Grant as Ted Cameron