Bad Men of the Border

Bad Men of the Border

Bordertown Thrills!

1945 · 55 min · ★ 5.5 · Western

Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby Grant, a former singer from Montana who had earlier acted under the name Robert Stanton. The series, Universal's last attempt at competing with Republic Pictures' many streamlined B-Westerns, also featured the bucolic Fuzzy Knight as Grant's sidekick. Grant and Knight are undercover U.S. marshals tracking down a gang of counterfeiters. To their surprise, they are soon assisted by a beautiful Mexican dancehall performer, Dolores Mendoza (Armida), who proves to be an undercover agent as well, in her case for the Mexican rurales headed by Captain Garcia (Francis McDonald).

Directed by Wallace Fox · Written by Adele Buffington

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Kirby Grant Ted Cameron
Fuzzy Knight Mortimer P. Rockabye Jones
Armida Dolores Mendoza
John Eldredge Bart Breslow
Barbara Sears Marie Manning
Edward Howard Ace Morgan (as Edward M. Howard)
Francis McDonald Captain Jose Garcia
Soledad Jiménez Estrella
Charles Stevens Juan
Sam Appel Sanchez
Edmund Cobb Roy
Ethan Laidlaw Gus

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