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Northern Border (1953)

Northern Border poster
Original title
Frontera norte
Directed by
Vicente Oroná
Genre
crime film
Country
Mexico
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Mexican crime film about people crossing the northern border. It follows the interactions between a few characters caught up in smuggling and crime.

melodramatictensegrittyseriousnoir-ishsuspensefulearnestmid-century

What happens

Northern Border (Spanish: Frontera norte) is a 1953 Mexican crime film directed by Vicente Oroná and starring Fernando Fernández, Evangelina Elizondo, and Víctor Parra. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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