Bad Men of the Border
1945Set 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).
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Kirby Grant
as Ted Cameron
Fuzzy Knight
as Mortimer P. Rockabye Jones
Armida
as Dolores Mendoza
John Eldredge
as Bart Breslow
Barbara Sears
as Marie Manning
Edward Howard
as Ace Morgan (as Edward M. Howard)
Francis McDonald
as Captain Jose Garcia
Soledad Jiménez
as Estrella
Charles Stevens
as Juan
Sam Appel
as Sanchez
Edmund Cobb
as Roy
Ethan Laidlaw
as Gus
Pierce Lyden
as Joe
Gene Roth
as Bill
Glenn Strange
as Sheriff Peters
Roy Brent
as Ed