''Border Romance'' is a 1929 American
pre-Code
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Western
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Places
*Western, Nebraska, a village in the US
*Western, New York, a town in the US
*Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia
*Western world, countries that id ...
romance film
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their ...
directed by
Richard Thorpe
Richard Thorpe (born Rollo Smolt Thorpe; February 24, 1896 – May 1, 1991) was an American film director best known for his long career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
His obituary called him "a capable and versatile director willing to take on any ass ...
. An early
sound film
A sound film is a Film, motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, bu ...
, it stars
Armida,
Don Terry,
Marjorie Kane, and
Victor Potel.
A copy is preserved at the
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...
, Packard.
[''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'', p. 20, c.1978 by The American Film Institute]
Cast

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Armida as Conchita Cortez
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Don Terry as Bob Hamlin
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Marjorie Kane as Nina
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Victor Potel as Slim
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Wesley Barry
Wesley Barry (August 10, 1907 – April 11, 1994) was an American actor, director, and producer. Barry began his career as a child actor in Silent film, silent motion pictures and later became a producer and director of both film and televisio ...
as Victor Hamlin
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J. Frank Glendon as Buck
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Harry von Meter
Harry von Meter (March 20, 1871 – June 2, 1956; sometimes credited as Harry van Meter) was an American actor of stage and silent film. He starred in about 200 films in the period from 1912 through 1929. He retired from acting just as sound fi ...
as Captain of Rurales
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Willy Castello
Willy Castello (April 24, 1910 – February 7, 1953) was a Dutch-American film actor, also sometimes credited as William Castello. While he spent much of his screen career playing supporting roles, he appeared for producer Willis Kent in several ...
as Lieutenant of Rurales (credited as William Costello)
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Fred Burns as Rustler (uncredited)
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Jim Mason as Rustler (uncredited)
See also
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List of early sound feature films (1926–1929)
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition from silent film to sound film, sound, between 1926 and 1929. During this time a variety of recording syst ...
References
External links
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1929 films
1929 Western (genre) films
American Western (genre) films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Richard Thorpe
Tiffany Pictures films
Transitional sound Western (genre) films
1920s American films
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