

Border River
They Had a Date With Destiny in the Powder-Keg of the West...ZONA LIBRE
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?
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- confederate soldier
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- PremiereNRSource: IMDb6 Jan 1954
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical22 Apr 1954
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Border River was released on 22 April 1954.
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2- J6/10
John Chard
6/12/2019
Free Zone and the Quicksand Quandaries! Border River is directed by George Sherman and written by William Sackheim and Louis Stevens. It stars Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Pedro Armendariz, Alfonso Bedoya and Howard Petrie. Music is by Joseph Gershenson and cinematography by Irving Glassberg. During the war between Maximillian and Juarez in 1865, there was a small territory on the Mexican side of the Rio Grand…
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CinemaSerf
7/2/2026
The title doesn't really do much for this film, but once it gets going it's quite a fun outing for Pedro Armendáriz as he hams up nicely as rogue general "Calleja". He runs a sort of liberty port on the river between the wartorn USA and Emperor Maximilian's Mexico from which he won't extradite anyone - and so his citizenry are all a bunch of cut-throats and criminals. Newly arrived - and only just escaping a pursuing…
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