The Border
Summary:
Tom Jones director Tony Richardson might seem a curious choice to direct the contemporary western The Border, but he does his best to emulate Sam Peckinpah. Jack Nicholson stars as an El Paso border guard, saddled with avaricious wife Valerie Perrine. Hoping to stifle her nagging about money matters, Nicholson begins accepting payoffs to allow Mexican aliens to cross... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jack Nicholson - (Charlie)
Harvey Keitel - (Cat)
Valerie Perrine - (Marcy)
Warren Oates - (Red)
Elpidia Carrillo - (Maria)
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Review:
Director Tony Richardson delves into the complex symbiosis between border guards and illegal aliens on the U.S./Mexican border in a film that's often engrossing, but finally too sprawling and diffuse to be compelling. The film takes a somewhat detached view of both guards and aliens, in laying out an ethnography of tastelessness and obsessive ma... Continue >>
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