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Border River

Border River

1954Movie⏱️ 1h 20mApproved
DramaWestern
6
IMDB Rating
732 votes

A Confederate officer and his men journey to Mexico to buy guns to continue the war effort. A Union officer determines to stop them.

Director
George Sherman
Writers
William Sackheim, Louis Stevens
Stars
Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Pedro Armendáriz
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 15
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Joel McCrea
Joel McCrea
as Clete Mattson
Yvonne De Carlo
Yvonne De Carlo
as Carmelita Carias
Pedro Armendáriz
Pedro Armendáriz
as Gen. Calleja
Alfonso Bedoya
Alfonso Bedoya
as Capt. Vargas
Howard Petrie
Howard Petrie
as Newlund
Renate Hoy
Renate Hoy
as Annina Strasser
George J. Lewis
George J. Lewis
as Sanchez
Nacho Galindo
Nacho Galindo
as Lopez
Ivan Triesault
Ivan Triesault
as Baron Von Hollden
George D. Wallace
George D. Wallace
as Fletcher

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.37 : 1
Filming Location
Courthouse Wash, Arches National Park, Utah, USA
Production
Universal International Pictures (UI)

🏷️ Keywords

mexicoheld at gunpointquicksandu.s. mexico borderburied gold

🎯 Categories

DramaWestern

⭐ Featured Review

Good "Shaky A" Western
by boblipton2021-08-11
6/10

"In the last days of the Civil War, Confederate officer Joel McCrea and associates rob a Union storehouse of $2,000,000. They head down to a small patch of Mexican territory controlled by renegade general Pedro Armendariz and start negotiating to turn that into arms for the Confederacy. McCrea gets various offers -- and attempted beatings -- from people who think the gold and a ticket to Europe are better to have, although Armendariz's mistress, Yvonne De Carlo is warmly friendly. This seems to have been movie shot in three-strip Technicolor, and under cinematographer Irving Glassberg, it..."

💡 Did You Know?

According to Fred H. Detmers, Technicolor's domestic sales manager, in the June-July 1968 issue of "Films in Review," this was the last film shot in the Three-Strip Technicolor process; however, according to a number of other reliable sources, Foxfire (1955) holds that distinction.

📖 Synopsis

A Confederate officer and his men journey to Mexico to buy guns to continue the war effort. A Union officer determines to stop them.