Bad Men of the Border

• 5.0 Western
• 1945-06-01
• 55 minutes mins

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).

Starring:

Kirby Grant (Ted Cameron) Fuzzy Knight (Mortimer P. Rockabye Jones) Armida (Dolores Mendoza) John Eldredge (Bart Breslow) Barbara Sears (Marie Manning) Edward Howard (Ace Morgan (as Edward M. Howard)) Francis McDonald (Captain Jose Garcia) Soledad Jiménez (Estrella) Charles Stevens (Juan) Sam Appel (Sanchez)

Director:

Wallace Fox

Writer:

Adele Buffington