Bad Men of the Border poster

Movie · 1945

Bad Men of the Border

Released 1 June 1945 More from 1945 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

Set on the Mexican border in 1850, Bad Men of the Border was the first of seven Universal Westerns starring handsome Kirby Grant, a former singer from Montana who had earlier acted under the name Robert Stanton. The series, Universal's last attempt at competing with Republic Pictures' many streamlined B-Westerns, also featured the bucolic Fuzzy Knight as Grant's sidekick. Grant and Knight are undercover U.S. marshals tracking down a gang of counterfeiters. To their surprise, they are soon assisted by a beautiful Mexican dancehall performer, Dolores Mendoza (Armida), who proves to be an undercover agent as well, in her case for the Mexican rurales headed by Captain Garcia (Francis McDonald).

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Francis McDonald
as Captain Jose Garcia
53
Glenn Strange
as Sheriff Peters
45
John Eldredge
as Bart Breslow
40
Kirby Grant
as Ted Cameron
33
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
20years between the oldest and youngest billed
53Francis McDonald — oldest on the call sheet
33Kirby Grant — youngest billed
43average age of the credited cast
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