Wetbacks (1956)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Lloyd Bridges	...	Jim Benson
	Nancy Gates	...	Sally Parker
	Barton MacLane	...	Karl Shanks
	John Hoyt	...	Steve Bodine
	Harold Peary	...	Juan Ortega
	Nacho Galindo	...	Alfonso
	Robert Keys	...	Reeser
	David Colmans	...	Pedro
	Salvador Baguez	...	Mexican Policeman
	Jose Gonzales-Gonzales	...	Wetback (as Jose Gonzales Gonzales)
	Joe Dominguez
	Louis Jean Heydt	...	Coast Guard Comdr. Randall
	Roy Gordon	...	Hoppy
	Scott Douglas	...	Immigration Officer
	I. Stanford Jolley	...	Fred

Storyline

About to lose his sole possession, his boat, for lack of payments, ex- Coast Guardsman Jim Benson takes a gamble on a fishing charter and removes the boat from the dock despite a sheriff's seizure order. But Jim finds himself with a loudmouthed drunk, Shanks, and his companion, Sally. To avoid paying for the fishing excursion, Shanks stages a fight with Jim and, when Jim puts him ashore at a small Mexican port, Shanks takes off, stranding both Jim (who is out of gas as well as cash) and Sally. The two begin to become "friends in need" and are put up by Alfonso, local innkeeper who is a friend of Jim's. But the town is the base of operations for a gang, led by Bodine and Ortega, who smuggle illegal aliens into California for a profit. Learning of Jim's plight, they offer him money to run 'just one' shipment of these 'wetbacks' across the border - then blackmail Jim to continue working for them... Written by Rich Wannen <RichWannen@worldnet.att.net>  

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