Bad Men of the Border
Bordertown Thrills!
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).
- Year: 1945
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Western
- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Keyword: smuggling (contraband), u.s. marshal
- Director: Wallace Fox
- Cast: Kirby Grant, Fuzzy Knight, Armida, John Eldredge, Barbara Sears, Edward Howard
