Wetbacks (1956)

Directed by

Hank McCune

Genre

drama, crime

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man gets involved with smuggling people across the Mexican border into the United States. The operation leads to dangerous encounters and moral conflicts.

tensedramaticgrittymodestsuspensefuldatedstraightforward

What happens

Wetbacks is a 1956 American crime film directed by Hank McCune and starring Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates and Barton MacLane. An independent production, the title is a reference to "wetbacks" a now derogatory term for illegal immigrants coming into the United States across the Mexican border. Location shooting took place around Santa Catalina Island and San Pedro in Los Angeles. It has plot similarities to the 1950 film The Breaking Point. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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