Directed by:
George ShermanCinematography:
Irving GlassbergCast:
Joel McCrea, Yvonne De Carlo, Pedro Armendáriz, Alfonso Bedoya, Howard Petrie, George J. Lewis, Lane Chandler, Frank Mills, George Wallace, Ivan Triesault (more)Plots(1)
At the Texas border during the Civil War, General Eduardo Calleja, the ruler of a Mexican free zone called Zona Libre, watches with his girlfriend, Carmelita Carias, as Confederate Jim Lake (Joel McCrea) struggles to escape policemen by crossing the Rio Grande. Although Jim is shot, Carmelita (Yvonne De Carlo) helps pull him to safety. When the police try to follow, declaring that Zona Libre is not in consent with the Mexican government, Calleja s troops, led by Captain Felipe Vargas, hold them back. Jim is actually Confederate Major Clete Matson and, along with friends, has stolen two million dollars in Union gold from a Colorado bank in order to buy war supplies for the South. The next day, Calleja, who knows Jim s true identity, invites him to his heavily guarded compound and introduces him to Baron Kurt Von Hollden, who handles all of Calleja s imports. Who can Jim trust with so much money around? Certainly not Calleja but maybe the eye-catching Carmelita? Whatever s going on, Mexico wants the place back. (101 Films)
(more)Cast
Joel McCrea
USA
Best movies:
Union Pacific (1939)
These Three (1936)
Colorado Territory (1949)
Yvonne De Carlo
Canada
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Roots (1977) (series)
Band of Angels (1957)
Pedro Armendáriz
Mexico
Best movies:
From Russia with Love (1963)
3 Godfathers (1948)
The Brute (1953)
Alfonso Bedoya
Mexico
Best movies:
The Big Country (1958)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Streets of Laredo (1949)
Howard Petrie
USA
Best movies:
Rocky Mountain (1950)
The Tin Star (1957)
Bend of the River (1952)
George J. Lewis
Mexico
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
It Started with Eve (1941)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Lane Chandler
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Laura (1944)
Frank Mills
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Fury (1936)
George Wallace
USA
Best movies:
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Minority Report (2002)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Ivan Triesault
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
Notorious (1946)
Bob Hoy
USA
Best movies:
Spartacus (1960)
W.B., Blue and the Bean (1989)
North and South (1985) (series)
Brick Sullivan
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Love Crazy (1941)
Cap Somers
USA
Best movies:
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Storm Warning (1951)
Charles Horvath
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Spartacus (1960)
Monte Montague
USA
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Show Boat (1936)
Virginia City (1940)
Bob Reeves
USA
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Storm Warning (1951)
Jack Kenny
USA
Best movies:
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Country Girl (1954)
Dodge City (1939)
Suzanne Ridgway
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Martin Garralaga
Spain
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Casablanca (1942)
Juarez (1939)
Jack Stoney
USA
Best movies:
Rear Window (1954)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)