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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
When Johnny's creative ideas help transform the failing casino into a high-class operation, the owner (Eugene Pallette) makes him the co-owner. But the...
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- Paul Muni
- Archie Mayo
- Crime, Drama
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Bordertown holds nothing back -- in fact, it's hard to believe it wasn't helmed by Michael Curtiz. It's gritty, realistic, and deliciously seedy. Paul Muni headlines as Johnny Ramirez, a hardworking, immigrant law graduate who gets shafted unfairly due to the rampant reign of racism.