Border Patrol (1943 film)
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Border Patrol is a 1943 Western
film starring Hopalong Cassidy
(William Boyd
). Released on April 2, 1943, it was produced by Harry Sherman and directed by Lesley Selander
. Hopalong's trusty sidekicks appear: California Carlson (Andy Clyde) and the young cowpoke Johnny, this time played by Jay Kirby. Other players destined for long film careers were also featured. Duncan Renaldo
(the future Cisco Kid
) plays the Mexican Commandant, Robert Mitchum
plays "Quinn," one of the bad guys and George Reeves
(the future TV Superman) plays "Don Enrique Perez," an accented Mexican captive working in the bad guys' silver mine. The only female in the film is Claudia Drake starring as "Onez La Baroa".
who set out to find how 25 Mexicans have disappeared after being hired by the "Silver Bullets" mine. They ride into town and find that the mine owner is a one-man government, played by Russell Simpson as "Orestes Krebes". Hopalong and his friends are arrested on trumped-up charges and are tried before a kangaroo court and sentenced to swing but not until after lunch. With the help of the girl, they escape, free the captive mine workers and together defeat the evil gang.
Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
film starring Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular short stories and twenty-eight novels based on the character....
(William Boyd
William Boyd (actor)
William Lawrence Boyd was an American film actor best known for portraying Hopalong Cassidy.-Biography:...
). Released on April 2, 1943, it was produced by Harry Sherman and directed by Lesley Selander
Lesley Selander
Lesley Selander was a prolific American film director of Westerns and science fiction movies. His career as director, spanning 127 feature films and 15 TV episodes, lasted from 1936 to 1968...
. Hopalong's trusty sidekicks appear: California Carlson (Andy Clyde) and the young cowpoke Johnny, this time played by Jay Kirby. Other players destined for long film careers were also featured. Duncan Renaldo
Duncan Renaldo
Renault Renaldo Duncan , better known as Duncan Renaldo, was an American actor who portrayed The Cisco Kid in films and on the 1950-1956 American TV series, The Cisco Kid.-Early years:...
(the future Cisco Kid
The Cisco Kid
The Cisco Kid refers to a character found in numerous film, radio, television and comic book series based on the fictional Western character created by O. Henry in his 1907 short story "The Caballero's Way", published in the collection Heart of the West...
) plays the Mexican Commandant, Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time...
plays "Quinn," one of the bad guys and George Reeves
George Reeves
George Reeves was an American actor best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program Adventures of Superman....
(the future TV Superman) plays "Don Enrique Perez," an accented Mexican captive working in the bad guys' silver mine. The only female in the film is Claudia Drake starring as "Onez La Baroa".
Plot
Hopalong and his sidekicks are Texas RangersTexas Ranger Division
The Texas Ranger Division, commonly called the Texas Rangers, is a law enforcement agency with statewide jurisdiction in Texas, and is based in Austin, Texas...
who set out to find how 25 Mexicans have disappeared after being hired by the "Silver Bullets" mine. They ride into town and find that the mine owner is a one-man government, played by Russell Simpson as "Orestes Krebes". Hopalong and his friends are arrested on trumped-up charges and are tried before a kangaroo court and sentenced to swing but not until after lunch. With the help of the girl, they escape, free the captive mine workers and together defeat the evil gang.