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Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The Plot:To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Soon, both are in deadly danger from the ringleader, sinister rancher Owen Parkson, and find night on the farm to be full of shadowy film-noir menace.Dated with absurd stereotyped characters that had to be hokey even back when this film was made in 1949.If you're Mexican you are either a tirelessly god fearing good person who works hard for a few dollars that may be stolen from you crossing the border, or you're thieving scum who will kill your fellow man.The acting is as idiotic and thin as the script. There's actually a woman who feels the braceros hands before they are approved to go to ensure the hands a rough. OMG! It's so dumb.This surely was a grade C movie when it came out.

Anthony Mann directed this still-timely drama that stars Ricardo Montalban as Mexican agent Pablo Rodriguez, who teams up with American agent Jack Bearnes(played by George Murphy) to tackle the problem of illegal Mexican Immigrant smuggling into California, which has seen many of them mysteriously murdered. Rancher Owen Parkson(played by Howard Da Silva) is chief suspect as the ringleader. Pablo goes undercover from the inside as an immigrant, while Jack investigates from the outside. The case will prove quite dangerous, more than either man realized... Fine drama with solid acting and direction, and an incisive script that wouldn't need much changing to work today, sadly.

Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, James Mitchell, and Charles McGraw star in this story about Mexicans who cross the border to California legally (and some illegally) to work and support their family back in Mexico. But, going back to Mexico, they are killed for their meager pay. In doing this, these certain "businessmen" can then get more Mexicans to come and work for them. It's all a racket, where these "businessman" make all the profits, until federal agents of America and Mexico are planted on the inside, who are George Murphy and Ricardo Montalban. George Murphy was mainly a song-and-dance guy in musical comedies of the 1930s and 1940s, but branched out to do other genres with this film, and I may never see him the same way again. Not so much because he was in it, but because of what happens. James Mitchell, who found fame later as "All My Children"'s Palmer Cortlandt, is on hand as a Mexican trying to find work to support his family. The film wraps up with unrelenting and uncompromising violence that does not talk down to its mature viewers. Little children, I should think, should not see this. For good actors in a solid picture directed by Anthony Mann, it's a Border Incident on the bill.

Actors of this quality deserve a first-rate film -- and they got it in "Border Incident." Howard Da Silva could do just about anything. His Benjamin Franklin in "1776" was outstanding, and his bad guy in this movie was so different that a viewer can only marvel and be a fan.George Murphy was another incredibly versatile actor, able to play light comedy, to sing and dance, and to play a doomed federal agent in "Border Incident." His scene in the field, as he lies wounded and trying to crawl away from the farm machine, is scary and touching.Ricardo Montalban was another more-than-capable actor, a handsome man, a prolific performer in many fields and roles.Some of the excellent character actors here include Arthur Hunnicutt, Charles McGraw, Sig Ruman, and the always fascinating Alfonso "We don't need no stinkin' badges" Bedoya.As so many other people have already mentioned, the problem with which "Border Incident" deals is still a problem.Poverty drives desperate people across a border desperately seeking work, desperately trying to feed their families.Naturally there are perils, from the death-dealing desert to heartless government agents to even more heartless thugs willing to exploit and even rob them."Border Incident" comes across almost as a documentary, and its realism just adds to the drama. This is definitely one to watch.