Bad Men of the Border

Overview

Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby Grant, a former singer from Montana who had earlier acted under the name Robert Stanton. The series, Universal's last attempt at competing with Republic Pictures' many streamlined B-Westerns, also featured the bucolic Fuzzy Knight as Grant's sidekick. Grant and Knight are undercover U.S. marshals tracking down a gang of counterfeiters. To their surprise, they are soon assisted by a beautiful Mexican dancehall performer, Dolores Mendoza (Armida), who proves to be an undercover agent as well, in her case for the Mexican rurales headed by Captain Garcia (Francis McDonald).

Cast

Kirby Grant

Ted Cameron

Fuzzy Knight

Mortimer P. Rockabye Jones

Armida

Dolores Mendoza

John Eldredge

Bart Breslow

Barbara Sears

Marie Manning

N/A

Edward Howard

Ace Morgan (as Edward M. Howard)

Francis McDonald

Captain Jose Garcia

Soledad Jiménez

Estrella

Charles Stevens

Juan

Sam Appel

Sanchez

Edmund Cobb

Roy

Ethan Laidlaw

Gus