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Bordertown is a 1935 American drama film directed by Archie Mayo and starring Paul Muni and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Laird Doyle and Wallace Smith is based on Robert Lord's adaptation of the 1934 novel Border Town by Carroll Graham. The supporting cast features Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette and Robert Barrat.
Bordertown: Directed by Archie Mayo. With Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette. In Mexico, a former lawyer becomes the invaluable second-in-command to a casino owner, whose wife begins to fall for him.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Archie Mayo
- 1935-01-23
In Bordertown (1935), Paul Muni plays Mexican-American Johnny Ramirez, a disbarred lawyer who runs a casino on the Mexican border owned by Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallette). Ramirez is attracted to society girl Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), and spurns the advances of Roark's neurotic wife, Marie, (Bette Davis), whose unhinged emotional state ...
- Archie Mayo
- Paul Muni
After the L.A. judicial system disbars him following an angry outburst, recent law-school graduate Johnny Ramirez (Paul Muni) finds a job at a small casino south of the border. When Johnny's ...
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- Paul Muni
- Archie Mayo
- Crime, Drama
Aug 22, 2019 · Bordertown 1935 - Bette Davis, Paul Muni. Storyline. Embittered when prejudice cuts short his nascent law career, once-idealistic Johnny Ramirez leaves his home in Los Angeles and ends up in Mexico. He quickly becomes the invaluable second-in-command to Charlie Roark, the owner of a border-town casino.
Oct 18, 2019 · Bordertown (1935) is a highly dramatic film that frequently verges on soap opera status. But the fine acting of Paul Muni and Bette Davis reels the story back in before all credibility is lost. You can purchase or rent Bordertown here on Amazon [aff. link].
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