Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

JohnHowardReid Copyright 11 December 1942 by United Artists Production, Inc. Presented by Harry Sherman. Released through United Artists. U.S. release: 2 April 1943. Australian release: 24 June 1943. Sydney release at the Civic: 18 June 1943. 5,927 feet. 66 minutes.SYNOPSIS: Silver-mine operator uses Mexicans for slave labor. NOTES: Mitchum's first film. Number 47 (as released) in the Hoppy series. Location in Kernville, California. Negative cost: $87,285.09. Worldwide Rental Gross: $132,406.23. These fascinating figures are taken from LESLEY SELANDER: A film Checklist by Karl Thiede in Close Up: The Contract Director edited by Jon Tuska (The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J., 1976). The gross of course is that of the film's initial release. Sherman abandoned the series when costs overtook the gross. On Lumberjack (1944), WWG of $115,389.25 falls well short of a negative cost of $117,402.22.COMMENT: Although he can be glimpsed in several scenes, Mitchum does not make much of an impression in his first film. Nonetheless, it's one of the classier entries in the series with sold solid action material vigorously directed by Lesley Selander from a script by none other than Michael Wilson (Five Fingers, A Place in the Sun, Friendly Persuasion, Bridge on the River Kwai, Planet of the Apes, etc.).The support players led by Russell Simpson are an interesting and appealing bunch. Music and photography are also well above standard. A full list of Mitchum's Hoppy bits can be found on IMDb. See also "Hoppy Serves a Writ" and "Colt Comrades".

classicsoncall If only the Hoppy line in my summary statement applied to our border patrol guys today. Times sure change don't they? Today they have to process the paper work.Well this time out, Hoppy and his sidekicks California (Andy Clyde) and Johnny (Jay Kirby) are Texas Rangers investigating the disappearance of laborers from south of the border. They have the unique distinction of getting arrested twice in the same picture, something I don't think I've ever seen before. The thought just came to me that it was too bad that Hoppy wasn't a singing cowboy like his contemporaries Roy Rogers and Gene Autry. When they wound up in jail they would take advantage of the situation by singing a song. Heck, even Ricky Nelson did it in "Rio Bravo".For old time Western movie fans, this one's a treasure trove for familiar faces who went on to bigger and better things. Robert Mitchum was still going by 'Bob' when this picture was made, and future Cisco Kid Duncan Renaldo is on hand as a Mexican Commandante. But the best is George Reeves in the role of a Mexican laborer in love with the film's heroine Senorita Inez La Barca (Claudia Drake). He's not on screen very much, and forgive me for saying so because I like the guy, but every time he's on it's hilarious. His Spanish accent is tortured and the pencil thin mustache is killer. You really have to see him to appreciate it.Say, check out that scene in the early going when Hoppy lassos an outlaw's feet some twenty feet above him on a giant boulder. Anyone think that's actually possible? If so, you'll really love the scene when the senorita smuggles a gun into jail for the boys, it's hidden in a pot of beans with bullets concealed in the tacos. Too bad about Mitchum though, Hoppy drilled him in the final shootout. We never find out what he thought about being called a two-bit gunman.

bkoganbing Border Patrol finds Hopalong Cassidy together with sidekicks Andy Clyde and Jay Kirby serving as Texas Rangers guarding the Mexican. A dead Mexican national and Claudia Drake's idea that they shot the man riding the horse that the dead man was riding that she claims belonged to her sweetheart George Reeves. Even after presenting their Ranger credentials to the Mexican border cop Duncan Renaldo doesn't convince her.But back they go across the border to an outlaw town where it's rumored a lot of Mexican laborers have gone to work. What they find is a town run by Judge Russell Simpson who makes Roy Bean look like Oliver Wendell Holmes. Fortunately for their sakes Claudia Drake has a change of mind about Hoppy and his sidekicks because Simpson doesn't recognize their status as Texas Rangers, his is the only law where he has jurisdiction.This Hopalong Cassidy film is notable for two things, it is one of the films that featured Robert Mitchum down in the cast as one of Simpson's hired guns. The second is the performance of Russell Simpson who even as he's deadly serious about hanging Hoppy and the sidekicks still laces his 'rulings' and 'jurisprudence' with a little humor.Definitely a must for Hopalong Cassidy and Robert Mitchum fans.

bsmith5552 "Border Patrol" is yet another entry in the long running Hopalong Cassidy series produced by Harry "Pop" Sherman between 1935 and 1944. The "Hoppy Trio" consists of Hoppy (William Boyd), California (Andy Clyde) and Johnny Travers (Jay Kirby). This time the boys are members of the Border Patrol of the title. The story opens with the trio coming upon a fleeing Mexican worker who has been shot trying to escape to his homeland. Mexican ranch owner Inez La Baroa (Claudia Drake) comes upon them and accuses them of murdering her ranch hand. She takes them to the Commandant of the Mexican Border Patrol (Duncan Renaldo) who straightens things out. It seems that Mexican migrant workers have been crossing the border to work in the U.S. never to be heard from again. Hoppy decides to investigate the matter. The trail leads to the town of Siver Bullet run by a Judge Roy Bean type named Orestes Krebs (Russell Simpson) who has the boys arrested. Krebs is an everyman in the town being mayor, sheriff and judge, among others. With the aid of Inez they overpower jailer Pierce Lydon and escape. They discover that Krebs has been imprisoning the Mexican workers led by Don Enriquez Perez (George Reeves) and forcing them to work in his silver mine. Well, Hoppy and the boys soon rectify that situation. Frequent series director Lesley Selander gives us an action packed adventure with plenty of fisticuffs and gunfights, as well as, the customary spectacular outdoor scenery which was common to the series. This film is also notable for the screen debut of Robert Mitchum who plays a Krebs gunman. Mitchum would go on to appear in several other Hoppys before his breakthrough role in "The Story of G.I. Joe" (1944). George Reeves, who would gain greater fame as TV's "Superman", appears briefly as the leader of the Mexican workers. He too would play a variety of roles in the series, even so far as to appear as one of the "Hoppy Trio" in a couple of pictures. Russell Simpson was perhaps better known as Pa Joad in John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940). Duncan Renaldo would shortly achieve fame as "The Cisco Kid" in a series produced by Monogram Pictures and a subsequent TV series. Top notch Hoppy.