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Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) is the chief narcotics officer in Mexico. While on a quick honeymoon with his new wife, Susan (Janet Leigh), in an American border town.

The honeymoon has to be brief because he is due to testify against the prime Mexican drug-lord, "Uncle Joe" Grandi (Akim Tamiroff). The trouble is Grandi's brother and sons are tracking Mike and his wife in a desperate attempt to scare his wife and thus backing him away from the case.

However when a bomb in a car kills a very wealthy American developer, Mike gets heavily involved in the investigation and thus putting his wife further into harm's way.

Soon Mike catches the 'respected' local cop, Captain Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles), planting evidence on the property of a Mexican national who has been brougtht out as a suspect in the bombing.

It isn't long before Quinlan joins forces with the Grandi family to attack Mike's good character.

Keywords:

Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(Black and white) (1958) (USA) (5 Star)

Cast:

Charlton Heston	.... Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas
Janet Leigh	.... Susan 'Susie' Vargas
Orson Welles	.... Police Captain Hank Quinlan
Joseph Calleia	.... Police Sergeant Pete Menzies
Akim Tamiroff	.... 'Uncle' Joe Grandi
Joanna Cook Moore	.... Marcia Linnekar

Supporting Cast:

Ray Collins	.... District Attorney Adair
Dennis Weaver	.... Mirador Motel night manager
Valentin de Vargas	.... Pancho Grandi hood
Mort Mills	.... Al Schwartz district attorney's assistant
Victor Millan	.... Manelo Sanchez
Lalo Rios	.... Risto Grandi's nephew throwing acid
Michael Sargent	.... Pretty Boy
Phil Harvey	.... Blaine
Joi Lansing	.... Zita

Directors:

Orson Welles

Writers:

Whit Masterson
Orson Welles

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