Bad Men of the Border (1945)

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).
- Released
- 1945-06-01
- Genres
- Western
- Runtime
- 55 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Wallace Fox, Adele Buffington
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 from 4 votes
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 (as Edward M. Howard)
- Francis McDonald as Captain Jose Garcia
- Soledad Jiménez as Estrella
- Charles Stevens as Juan
- Sam Appel as Sanchez
- Edmund Cobb as Roy
- Ethan Laidlaw as Gus