''Border Devils'' is a 1932 American

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film directed by

William Nigh William Nigh (October 12, 1881 – November 27, 1955) was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye". Biography Nigh was born Emil Kreuske''Silent Film Necrology ...

and starring Harry Carey,

Kathleen Collins Kathleen Collins (March 18, 1942 – September 18, 1988) (also known as Kathleen Conwell, Kathleen Conwell Collins or Kathleen Collins Prettyman) was an African-American poet, playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and ...

, and

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. The film is Collins's last role and her only sound film.

Cast

* Harry Carey as Jim Gray *

as Marcia Brandon *

as Dude Sanders *

Niles Welch Niles Eugene Welch (July 29, 1888 – November 21, 1976) was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s. Early life A native of Hartf ...

as Tom Hope * Olive Carey as Ethel Denham * Albert J. Smith as Inspector Bell *

Merrill McCormick William Merrill McCormick (February 5, 1892 – August 19, 1953) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1916 and 1953. William Merrill McCormick was born on February 5, 1892, in Denver, Colorado. McCormick ap ...

as Jose Lopez *

Art Mix Art Mix (born George Washington Kesterson; June 18, 1896 – December 7, 1972), was an American character actor from the 1920s until the mid-1940s. Biography Prior to becoming an actor, Mix worked as a circus performer and a boxer. He initiall ...

as Bud Brandon *

Tetsu Komai (23 April 1894 – 10 August 1970), also known as Tetsuo Komai, was a Japanese-American actor, known for his minor roles in Hollywood films. Biography Born in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Komai had small parts in over 50 films from the 1920s until the mi ...

as The General

Plot

A man, Jim Gray (Carey), is wrongfully put in jail; he escapes to prove his innocence and reveal the real criminal. In the process, Gray discovers a second criminal who has been working behind the scenes with the more obvious villain.

Script

The film was written by Harry P. Crist ( credited for "script and continuity' under this pen name is the American director Harry Fraser). The story was based upon the novel ''Dead Man's Shoes'', by

Murray Leinster Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975) was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction. He wrote and published more than 1,500 short stories and articles, 14 movie ...

Themes

This film has been noted for the unexpected presence in a Western, of

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themes, embodied in the character of the villain, a mysterious 'oriental' criminal figure known as the General.

References

External links

Border Devils at IMDb.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Border Devils 1932 films 1932 Western (genre) films American Western (genre) films American black-and-white films Films directed by William Nigh Films with screenplays by Harry L. Fraser 1930s English-language films 1930s American films