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Synopsis: To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Soon, both are in deadly danger from the ringleader, sinister rancher Owen Parkson, and find night on the farm to be full of shadowy film-noir menace...
Director(s): Anthony Mann
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
7.1
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
PASSED
Year:
1949
94 min
301 Views


Goodbye, sir.

Goodbye, good luck,

and take care of yourself.

Thank you very much.

- Good luck.

- Thank you.

"Jess Hernndez. "

"Hilario Malvido. "

There are many of us, no?

- Too many, seor.

- "Juan Fernndez. "

You will go across soon?

Into the United States?

For six weeks I have been here, waiting.

Every day, waiting.

But today is the day.

- Today they will call my name.

- "Alfonso de Delgado. "

You're from Michoacn, aren't you?

From San Carlos Coyotepec?

We're neighbors, then.

Michoacn is my state.

My home is Uruapan.

- Pablo Rodriguez.

- Juan Garcia.

"Vicente. Juan Vicente Delgado. "

"Juan Garca...

...y Pea.

Juan Garca y Pea. "

"Alfonso Guerra. "

- What do we do now?

- We go back to the plaza.

Tomorrow we come back,

and the tomorrow after that.

No, I won't wait six weeks.

Not one week.

I'm no man for waiting.

How does one go across outside the law?

It can mean death.

Is it difficult to arrange?

If you want to do it the foolish way.

If you have no regard

for your wife and children.

I have no wife.

How is this done?

Come with me.

It is simple.

Go up to that man,

show him you have 70 pesos.

Tell him you want to go

to the United States.

This is all?

For 70 pesos, it can be arranged.

Show me that you have the pesos.

For my knowledge.

If you're a man of your word,

wear this in your hat.

Be in front of La Fortuna Barberia

tonight by 10:
00.

No, Juan, you mustn't.

You told me yourself

you have a wife...

...and a home in your village,

a son and a little daughter.

You should think of them.

- A man does not live forever.

- That's right, a man doesn't live forever.

So he should be careful

about the few years he has.

Let's go.

Pardon me, sir, may I have a light?

Tonight.

In front of La Fortuna Barberia.

Ten o'clock.

You didn't get a very good light.

Keep these, Ive got some more.

Thank you, seor. Thank you.

- How beautiful that shirt.

- Yes, it gives a man distinction.

Come on.

I must go see my wife.

Wish me luck.

- May you go with God, seor.

- Thank you.

And you know this, Holy Mother,

better than I...

...for you know all.

We were returning from the United States,

in the night, secretly...

...with our savings of many weeks.

The robbers and killers found us

in the desert.

Enrique and Lus and Tomas

they stabbed to the heart.

Me, they left for a dead one.

I thought I would die too.

But I saw you in your glory,

Sainted Mother...

...and I knew I would live.

My arm is gone from the infection

of the knife...

...but I thank thee for my life...

...and I offer this poor retablo...

...as sign that I will never forget

your compassion.

I have been praying, my husband...

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John C. Higgins

John C. Higgins (April 28, 1908 – July 2, 1995) was an American screenwriter. During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Winnipeg, Canada-born scribe worked on mostly complex murder mystery films, including the Spencer Tracy film Murder Man (1935). During the late 1940s, Higgins continued to pen thrillers, including semidocumentary-style films, including director Anthony Mann's He Walked By Night, Raw Deal, T-Men and Border Incident. Higgins also wrote horror films like the Basil Rathbone starrer The Black Sleep (1956) and Higgins last film Daughters of Satan (1972). Higgins also wrote the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) and the adventure film Impasse (1969). more…

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