Border River

“They Had a Date With Destiny in the Powder-Keg of the West...ZONA LIBRE”

6.2(21)19541h 21m

Western

A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?

Director

George Sherman

Cast

Joel McCrea

Clete Mattson

Yvonne De Carlo

Carmelita Carias

Pedro Armendáriz

General Calleja (as Pedro Armendariz)

Alfonso Bedoya

Captain Vargas

Howard Petrie

Newlund

Renate Hoy

Annina Strasser (as Erika Nordin)

George J. Lewis

Sanchez

Nacho Galindo

Lopez

Ivan Triesault

Baron Von Hollden

George D. Wallace

Fletcher

Lane Chandler

Anderson

Martín Garralaga

Guzman

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Reviews

2 reviews

Geronimo1967

12d ago

6.0

The title doesn't really do much for this film, but once it gets going it's quite a fun outing for Pedro Armendáriz as he hams up nicely as rogue general "Calleja". He runs a sort of liberty port on the river between the wartorn USA and Emperor Maximilian's Mexico from which he won't extradite anyone - and so his citizenry are all a bunch of cut-throats and criminals. Newly arrived - and only just...

John Chard

7y ago

6.0

Free Zone and the Quicksand Quandaries! Border River is directed by George Sherman and written by William Sackheim and Louis Stevens. It stars Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Pedro Armendariz, Alfonso Bedoya and Howard Petrie. Music is by Joseph Gershenson and cinematography by Irving Glassberg. During the war between Maximillian and Juarez in 1865, there was a small territory on the Mexican s...