The Far Frontier

The Far Frontier

Roy Battles Border Smugglers! Thrills ripped from today's headlines... The shock story of the year!

1948 · 67 min · ★ 6.5 · Action, Western

Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.

Directed by William Witney · Written by Sloan Nibley

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Roy Rogers Roy Rogers
Gail Davis Susan Hathaway
Andy Devine Judge Cookie Bullfincher
Francis Ford Alf Sharper
Roy Barcroft Henchman Bart
Clayton Moore Tom Sharper
Robert Strange Willis Newcomb
Trigger Trigger - Roy's Horse
Mike Ragan Rocco - Henchman (as Holly Bane)
Lane Bradford Butch - Henchman
John Bagni Rollins - Smuggled Criminal
Clarence Straight Jeb - Defendant

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