Border patrol
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Border patrol |
| Original title | The Border |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tony Richardson |
| script |
Deric Washburn Walon Green David Freeman |
| production | Edgar Bronfman Jr. |
| music | Ry Cooder |
| camera | Ric Waite |
| cut | Robert K. Lambert |
| occupation | |
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Border Patrol is a 1982 American drama film directed by Tony Richardson and starring Jack Nicholson and Harvey Keitel .
action
Charlie Smith is a United States Border Patrol officer . His job is to track down and arrest illegal immigrants in Los Angeles . When he gives in to his wife Marcy's insistence, they move to El Paso and go into debt by buying a bungalow. Marcy's friends, Savannah and Cat, who also works for the border patrol, are her neighbors.
Smith discovers that some of his colleagues and his boss, Red, are corrupt. Cat is involved in organizing illegal immigration of Mexicans. Marcy runs into further debts when she furnishes the new apartment expensive and has a swimming pool built. Because of this debt, Charlie Smith is forced to take part in Cat and the people smugglers.
Charlie Smith meets the illegal immigrant Maria, whose child was kidnapped by the people smugglers. It is to be sold to adoptive parents. The officer wants to help her find the child. Maria offers him sex with her in return, but Smith refuses. He says he wants to "do something decent one day". He gives her some money and the address of a people smuggler so that she can work in the States.
Maria's brother Juan also wants to come to the United States illegally. When the Mexican immigrants are invited into a transporter by the people smugglers after crossing the border made possible by bribed border police officers, Juan and a friend arouse suspicion of the smugglers; if the men were searched, drugs were found. The angry smugglers shoot both men. Juan escapes seriously injured, while the other man is dead on the spot. After making it to his barrack, Juan dies of the consequences of the injury. The transporter is discovered by two border police officers who are not involved in the corruption and crashes after a chase. Smith simply takes the injured Maria with him, treats her and brings her back to Mexico , where she finds the body of her late brother.
Charlie Smith searches for and finds the kidnapped baby. He is lured into a trap and attacked by Cat and two other colleagues on the way. Smith kills the men. Then he brings the child back to Maria.
Reviews
Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times (January 29, 1982) that the film was brutal. It is not easy to classify him. It is made "intelligent", the direction and the presentations are good, but it looks like a predictable television film. The script was written “competently” and “carefully”.
The lexicon of the international film found: "With action set pieces staged, in parts quite exciting, socially critical milieu study."
Remarks
The drama was filmed in Texas and Guatemala from March 1980 to May 1980 .
Originally, Smith was supposed to blow up his agency's offices and go to jail. This outcome of the action was changed after the test demonstrations.
The film grossed $ 6.1 million in US theaters . The estimated cost was $ 22 million.
See also
Web links
- Border Patrol in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Border patrol at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Review on Filmzentrale.com
Individual evidence
- ^ The New York Times
- ↑ Border patrol. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ IMDb.com