Tony Richardson – The Border (1982)

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AFTER 11 years of marriage, Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) is fed up with living in a dreary trailer with his pretty, bubble-brained, Texas-born wife, Marcy (Valerie Perrine), and with his job as a member of the United States Border Patrol stationed in Los Angeles. During the day, Charlie makes token arrests of docile, mostly frightened, illegal Mexican immigrants, who supply L.A.’s small businesses with below-minimum-wage labor, and then goes home to drink beer and listen to Marcy, who dreams of living in splendor in her very own duplex.

Largely at Marcy’s urging, Charlie transfers to El Paso, where Marcy gets her duplex – ”Look at it! It’s just like the picture said!” – and where life as a border guard is a good deal more active and perilous than the duty in Los Angeles. At night, the Rio Grande, which forms the U.S.-Mexican border at El Paso, teems with poor, desperate, illiterate Mexicans seeking entrance into the land of milk, honey, bigotry and exploitation.

In a very short time, Charlie Smith, up to his ears in bills for such things as patio furnit ure, a plastic swi mming pool and a waterbed so big it would make an ordinary cou ple seasick, falls in with those border guards who supplement their incomes by accepting payoffs from a few recognized importers of Me xican ”wetbacks.”

”The Border,” which opens today at the Rivoli and other theaters, is an angry, brutal melodrama about the plight of the illegal immigrants, about the people who rip them off and about the consequences of Charlie’s crossing of his own border into the alien territory of bribes, beatings, kidnappings and murder.

”The Border” is an odd, not easily categorized movie. Although it has been made with intelligence, is well directed and acted and is in touch with the ways of lower-middle-class American life, it has the sort of predictable outrage and shape of a made-for-television movie. It has suspense but little excitement. Once the people and the situation have been introduced, there’s not a single surprise in the film, nothing of the uncharacteristic sort that differentiates the adequate melodrama from one that is special and memorable.

Tony Richardson - (1982) The Border.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 48 min
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Language(s):English, Spanish
Subtitles:English