Border Incident

Border Incident

★ 6.9IMDb Score
Released:1949-10-28
Duration:94 min
Director:Anthony Mann
Actors:Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard Da Silva, James Mitchell, Arnold Moss
Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Overview:

The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.

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