Movie
The Border
Overview
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Details
- Release date
- 1982-01-29
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Efer Productions, RKO Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Jack Nicholson as Charlie Smith
- Harvey Keitel as Cat
- Valerie Perrine as Marcy
- Warren Oates as Red
- Elpidia Carrillo as Maria
- Shannon Wilcox as Savannah
- Manuel Viescas as Juan
- Jeff Morris as J.J.
- Mike Gomez as Manuel
- Dirk Blocker as Beef
- Lonny Chapman as Andy
- Stacey Pickren as Hooker
Crew
- Tony Richardson - Director
- Deric Washburn - Writer
- David Freeman - Writer
- Walon Green - Writer
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