Bordertown
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with his boss's neurotic wife in this fast-paced and entertaining drama.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 4, 2009
- Originally Released: 1935
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Muni, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat & Bette Davis | |
Directed by | Archie Mayo | |
Screenwriting by | Laird Doyle & Wallace Smith | |
Composition by | Bernard Haun | |
Director of Photography: | Tony Gaudio |
Entertainment Reviews:
[Muni's] performance, on the whole, is a typical Muni performance -- being vigorous, simple, unaffected and believable. He is one of those rare actors whose talents don't seem to be thrown pell-mell into the very teeth of the camera.
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Washington Star
If you can forget some of the details (like Soledad Jiménez being the only authentic Hispanic person in the film), you will leave this film satisfied. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Cine-Mundial
Finish is phoney, but it can't hurt the previous good work. Casting throughout the film, which is also well written [from a novel by Carrol Graham] and paced, is exceptionally good.
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Variety
"Bordertown" otherwise manages to impale the spectator's attention before the picturesque and somewhat hysterical materials of the story.
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New York Times
The role of Johnny is one of those tense, slightly overwrought characterizations in which Paul Muni excels.
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Maclean's Magazine
Noteworthy for another of Bette Davis' portrayals of a pathological hussy. She steals the picture away from Paul Muni.
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Vanity Fair
Rating: 3/5 --
Bordertown packs a stinging punch, chiefly because of Muni's frantic portrayal and Davis' extraordinary theatrics.
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TV Guide
Description by OLDIES.com:
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with his boss's neurotic wife in this fast-paced and entertaining drama. Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy-winner Bette Davis ("All About Eve"), Margaret Lindsay ("Please Don't Eat the Daises") and Oscar-winner Paul Muni ("Scarface") do an excellent job in bringing their complex characters to life.
Product Description:
Paul Muni stars in this drama about a romantic triangle that leads to madness and murder. Overly enthusiastic Mexican attorney Johnny Ramirez (Muni) is disbarred after his first trial for his flagrant disregard of courtroom etiquette. In desperate need of work, he takes a job as a bouncer in a sleazy bordertown night club owned by Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallette). Charlie's wife Marie (Bette Davis) is immediately attracted to Johnny and makes a none-too-subtle play for him. But Johnny has his eye on Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), a socialite who enjoys slumming in low-class dives and admiringly refers to Johnny as a "savage." Johnny tells Marie that it's against his principles to get involved with a married woman, so she decides to do something about that: she traps drunken Charlie in his car while it's locked in a garage, allowing the carbon monoxide to take Charlie out of the picture. When Marie explains that she killed her husband and is now available to him, Johnny wants no part of her; bitter that Johnny has snubbed her, Marie implicates him in Charlie's murder, leading to a dramatic and surprising trial. Paul Muni reportedly moved in with his Mexican chauffeur in order to study his accent and reproduce it accurately for this film.
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- Sales Rank: 16,357
- UPC: 883316119020
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