
Border Incident(1949)
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.



John Garfield
Harry Morgan

Patricia Neal
Leona Charles

Phyllis Thaxter
Lucy Morgan

Juano Hernández
Wesley Park

Wallace Ford
F.R. Duncan

Edmon Ryan
Rogers

Ralph Dumke
Hannagan

Guy Thomajan
Danny

William Campbell
Concho

Sherry Jackson
Amelia Morgan
The Breaking Point is a crime, drama film released in 1950 exploring themes of california, mexico, based on novel or book, fishing, illegal immigration, fisherman. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it stars John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter. A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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