Border Cafe (film)

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Border Cafe
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Directed by Lew Landers
Screenplay byLionel Houser
Based onIn the Mexican Quarter
1930 story in Hearst's International Cosmopolitan
by Thomas Gill
Produced by Robert Sisk
Starring Harry Carey
Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca
Edited by Jack Hively
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
June 4, 1937
Running time
67 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Border Cafe is a 1937 American Western film directed by Lew Landers and starring Harry Carey. [1]

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Plot

Keith Whitney, the son of a wealthy senator, travels to the western part of the country to purchase a ranch. After losing his money at a cafe near the border, he is taken in by a rancher named Tex, who offers him refuge and makes him a partial owner of the ranch. When Keith's father and girlfriend are kidnapped, Tex and Keith team up to rescue them. Along the way, Keith transforms from an intoxicated patron to a hero, and ultimately helps to save the day.

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References

  1. Border Cafe (1937) directed by Lew Landers • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd , retrieved March 13, 2023