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Wetbacks (1956)
Directed by Hank McCune
Overview
Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishing charter. Jim departs just ahead of the Sherrif with drunken Shanks, and his companion Sally (Gates). Shanks takes off into a small Mexican village after a fight with Jim, stranding both Sally and him with no money. Two local men hear of Jim’s plight, and offer him money to smuggle a batch of illegal aliens, called Wetbacks, into the U.S. He agrees but is blackmailed into continuing to run the smuggling operation. Afraid, Jim decides to make a run for it, but someone close to him reveals themselves as a US Immigration agent and asks him to assist them in shutting down the smugglers for good.
Length 89 minutes
Actors
Lloyd Bridges | Nancy Gates | Barton MacLane | John Hoyt | Harold Peary | Nacho Galindo | Robert Keys | Salvador Baguez | Jose Gonzales-Gonzales | Louis Jean Heydt | Roy Gordon | Scott Douglas | I. Stanford Jolley | Wally Cassell | Gene Roth