

01/06/1945
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).

Kirby Grant
as Ted Cameron

Fuzzy Knight
as Mortimer P. Rockabye Jones

Armida
as Dolores Mendoza

John Eldredge
as Bart Breslow

Barbara Sears
as Marie Manning

Edward Howard
as Ace Morgan (as Edward M. Howard)

Francis McDonald
as Captain Jose Garcia

Soledad Jiménez
as Estrella

Charles Stevens
as Juan

Sam Appel
as Sanchez

Edmund Cobb
as Roy

Ethan Laidlaw
as Gus

Pierce Lyden
as Joe

Gene Roth
as Bill

Glenn Strange
as Sheriff Peters

Roy Brent
as Ed
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