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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.
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.
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- Paul Muni
- Archie Mayo
- Crime, Drama
Aug 31, 2021 · Adapted from Carroll Graham’s 1934 novel Border Town, the movie follows Mexican American Johnny Ramirez (played by Ukrainian American actor Paul Muni) as he overcomes adversity to become...
Aug 22, 2019 · Bordertown 1935 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.
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Dec 1, 2014 · Directed by Archie Mayo (The Petrified Forest) from a screenplay by Laird Doyle , Wallace Smith (Two Arabian Knights) and Robert Lord (20, 000 Years in Sing Sing), Bordertown is a rock-solid quasi-noirish tale of treachery and murder, with a fine sparring match between Paul Muni and Bette Davis.