TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

arfdawg-1 Customs agents are looking for information about Pete Ritchie.He is involved in smuggling drugs into the US.Police officer Madeleine Haley goes undercover in order to gain Ritchie's confidence, and before long she meets him through one of his associates.Doesn't this sort of sound like another movie made around this time??As she is talking with Ritchie, Johnny Macklin and one of his men burst in, and they provoke a violent confrontation. From then on, Haley is in constant danger as she attempts to figure out everything that is happening in the smuggling operation.OK but the widest lapels on the planet do not a good movie make.

oldsenior It begins with Claire Trevor supposedly being a "crack" police officer, but the director has her all but aced out of the scene by two massive men in front of her, if she was so sharp she would have busted her way forward, front and center. From here the story gets downright silly, she goes undercover, she's suddenly a chorus girl in Mexico trying to infiltrate Raymond Burr and his gang. Then it gets sillier, Fred MacMurray is portrayed as a bad guy (we know he's a cop) who pushes his way into Burr's lair and literally kidnaps Claire. They're headed for the American border with drugs with a plan to catch the crooks, they start off from Mexico, but for some reason they have to stop and stay over night at a hotel, now it gets even sillier with the false 50's morals of the day; Claire gets scared when she fines herself alone in the hotel room with Fred, even though she's 40 years old, oh my, she somehow still has her gun to protect herself and still has her police mini=camera (pretty heady for a 50's flick), whats wrong with Fred, isn't he smart enough to frisk her to begin with. The whole plot is getting rather stupid with F and C outsmarting the Mexican police with a corpse in the car, etc. then have to make an impromptu plane landing on the coastline, not to mention the heat and dust of the whole trip, of course still looking like they just stepped out of Vogue, they stay at a class hotel and then get into what's supposed to be a "cute" bit of dialogue of who's a cop, your a cop, no you're a cop, pretty lame, even for a lame picture. The whole picture is a study in how to make a fast buck, (no problem there), I'm surprised there was a writing credit. All in all it was a pleasure to see the beautiful Claire Trevor on the heels of her Oscar win getting a nice wardrobe and Fred looking like his "My Three Son" self getting a nice trip to Mexico and Charles Lane acting like he's getting ready for the "Lucy" show, which he plays about the same role as he did here (unfortunately this wasn't supposed to be a comedy). The good news is that I only had to pay a dollar, plus tax for this DVD at the 99 cent store. See everybody wins. Anyways, that's Hollywood for you in the 50's, with the real sad and bad back drop of the McCarthy and Nixon Era fiasco's, not to mention the Korean War. Not a good time for some, like today......oops! Did someone say the Iraq War and same sex marriages!

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Even though the movie "Borderline" is about a serious subject drug smuggling, and has a number of people killed in it, it comes across more like a 1930's type screwball comedy. Johnny McEvoy aka MacKlin and Madeleine Haley aka Gladys LaRue, Fred MacMurray & Claire Trevor, are working undercover in Mexico and unknown to each other who they really are. Each one thinks that the other is a criminal trying to get each other arrested by the US border police after they cross into California with a load of illegal drugs.It's amazing to me that a criminal sharpie like Pete Ritchie, Raymond Burr, couldn't spot these two undercover US law enforcers, posing as a gangster and floozy, as soon as he laid his eyes on them. Ritchie must have either been high or suffering from brain damage from the drugs he was smuggling. After ripping Ritchie off of his drug stash the two are on the run to get to the Mexican border with the drug shipment only to get each other arrested by the border police. All this without realizing that they both play for the same team the US Custom Services, Macklin, and the L.A Police department, Haley.I couldn't get over the fact that the two fell in love with each other, which was obvious at the end of the movie, yet were more then willing to turn each other over to the authorities where they could have gotten long prison time for drug trafficking? Doesn't true love mean anything to these two? Couldn't they just let each other get away and concentrate on the capturing the major dealer and head of the drug smuggling ring? The FBI let Sammy "The Bull" Gravono, who admittedly murdered 19 people, walk away Scot-free in order to get his boss John Gottie behind bars with his testimony and nobody, as far as I know, in the FBI was madly in love with Sammy! The two crime fighters are now together in their efforts to stop the drug smuggling gang led by Mr.Big himself Harvey Gumbin, Roy Roberts. Harvey wasn't that much smarter then his Man in Mexico Pete Ritchie by not realizing who this McEvoy really was, an undercover government agent. In the end there was an incredible shootout at Harvey's hideout, where McEvoy brought the drug shipment. McEvoy himself urged on Harvey's gangster to shoot it out with the police, in order not to blow his cover, endangering not only himself but the very police that were coming to his rescue! The best way to enjoy the movie "Borderline" is to watch it only for unintentional laughs.

Stephen Alfieri "Borderline" tries to be a lot of things. Romantic comedy, film noir, comedy of errors, gangster film, and more. Unfortunately it does not succeed at any of these genres.Led by Fred MacMurray and Claire Trevor, who have absolutely no chemistry together, this film suffers from an identity crisis.Film starts out on a serious note, story about drugs being smuggled over the border. Then Claire Trevor acts as though she thinks she's in "Hellzapoppin'". Broad, over the top, and just not right for the part. From there we meet Fred MacMurray who is only slightly more interesting.Yes, there are some humorous moments, but nowhere near enough to be able to recommend seeing this film.5 out of 10