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  Alton, John
  Mann, Anthony
   


Border Incident occurs as 1949 black-and-white film directed by Anthony Mann. A MGM film, considered film noir, was written by John C. Higgins and George Zuckerman.

A story concerns deuce offices, of these Mexican & 1 Our contries, world health organization come tasked to prevent a smuggling of Mexican migratory workers through a boarder to California. Them offices last hole-and-corner, of these as a unfortunate migrator.

the select few memorable scenes inside the dark, gritty film include the agonizing episode involving the ploughing machine & the climactic gunplay in a quicksand swamp. A film was shot by famous cinematographer John Alton who uses shadows & lighting results to require an audience despite the fact that a film was shot in a moo budget.

Film reviews of the motion-picture show now come mostly caring. Roger Westcombe write about the webpage [http://www.bighousefilm.com/reviews/border_incident.htm Big House Film] compares a film to classic film westerns: "Yet far from a typical Western’s sense of freedom, Border Incident shares with (director Mann's previous effort) T-Men that film’s inky, submerged visual quality. These are ‘wide’ but not ‘open’ spaces, as Alton’s beautifully registered grey-toned but grim visuals make the distant horizons as closed as the American border. The constant presence of vulnerable, innocent peasants adds a piquancy to Border Incident, raising the stakes from the destiny of a mere two police agents to that of an entire underclass."

Cast
Ricardo Montalban as Pablo Rodriguez George Murphy as Jack Bearnes Howard Da Silva as Owen Parkson James Mitchell as Juan Garcia Arnold Moss as Zopilote

Border Incident (1949)
A.K. Rode writes for Film Monthly that the film was "as uncompromising and tough as movies got in 1950".

Border Incident
Review by Roger Westcombe of "an extremely tough, powerful thriller".

Border Incident (1949)
Cast, crew and review from the Internet Movie Database.


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