Border Incident (1949)

Director
Anthony Mann

Main cast
Ricardo Montalban; George Murphy; Howard Da Silva; James Mitchell; Arnold Moss

Genres
Crime, Drama, Thriller

Description
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.


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