The Tijuana Story (1957) - feat. James Darren & Robert Blake
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April 1956, Tijuana, Mexico, a
April 1956, Tijuana, Mexico, a den of sex and drugs, as schoolteacher Alberto Rodriguez (William Fawcett) stumbles into the office of El Sol newspaper, asking to see the paper's crusading editor, Manuel Acosta Mesa (Rodolfo Acosta). Alberto has been badly beaten by the local crime syndicate for telling the police that syndicate employee Miguel Fuentes (William Tannen) was selling drugs on school grounds.
After Alberto collapses and is rushed to the hospital, Manuel goes to confront Peron Diaz (Paul Newlan), the local crime lord who operates out of a nightclub fronted by American Eddie March (Robert McQueeney). When Manuel demands that Peron pay Alberto's hospital bill, the crime lord's thugs attack him. Eddie, his conscience shaken, helps the injured Manuel out of the club. To silence Manuel, Peron approaches Reuben Galindo (Michael Fox), the owner of ^El Sol , and offers to launch a lucrative ad campaign in the paper if Manuel will tone down his editorials.
After Galindo informs Peron that Manuel's contract allows him complete editorial control, Peron makes a sinister threat against Galindo's family. Soon after, a group of American teenage boys comes to Tijuana looking for a good time. When Mitch James Darren), one of the boys, sees Linda Alvarez (Joy Stoner), the young woman who works as Manuel's secretary, waiting for her bus, he makes a pass at her. Linda slaps him. Later, at Eddie's club, one of the bar girls lures Mitch into buying some marijuana. At home that night, Eddie begins to reevaluate his business relationship with Peron and confides to his pregnant wife Liz that he needs the gangster's financial backing.
Mitch returns to Tijuana to apologize to Linda and the two begin to date. When Mitch's drowned body washes up on some rocks, Manuel blames the syndicate for his and Alberto's deaths and vows to bring down Peron and his men. After Galindo buys out his contract at El Sol , Manuel uses the money to fund El Imparcial , a paper dedicated to reform, and appoints his son, Enrique Acosta Mesa (Robert Blake), as co-editor. When the syndicate uses violence to intimidate the paper's advertisers, the California papers rally behind Manuel.
Eddie and Liz speed toward the border, with Peron's thugs in pursuit. After Peron and his thugs force Eddie at gunpoint to pull over, Eddie tackles the criminals, sending one of the thug's pistol flying into the brush. As Peron and his men beat Eddie, Liz retrieves the weapon and orders Peron to leave. Vowing to tell Manuel all that he knows about the syndicate, Eddie returns to Tijuana with Liz. In the next issue of El Imparcial , Manuel reports that he has a complete list of syndicate members and will deliver it to the Legislative Hearing on Crime in Mexicali. Before he can testify, however, Manuel is slain while standing on his own front porch. At Manuel's funeral, Galindo rallies the mourners to rise against the syndicate and clean up Tijuana. In the next issue of El Imparcial , Enrique issues a call for reform.
A 1957 American low budget film-noir crime B-Movie directed by László Kardos, produced by Sam Katzman, written by Lou Morheim, cinematography by Benjamin H. Kline, starring Rodolfo Acosta, James Darren, Robert McQueeney, Jean Willes, and Robert Blake. Susan Seaforth Hayes's debut screen appearance.
Produced on the quick to take advantage of the news cycle, by producer Sam Katzman, which means poor production values, one-take performances and sensationalized dramatics. This marked character actor Rodolfo Acosta's only starring role.
James Darren, "Gidget" (1959), and Robert Blake, "Baretta", Mickey in "The Little Rascals & Our Gang" both appear in another lesser-known B-Noir, Fred F. Sears' "Rumble on the Docks" (1956).
This fifties semi-documentary style gritty crime thriller "ripped from the pages of todays headlines" purporting to expose the sin, crime, vice and corruption of some major city, was narrated by journalist Paul Coates, who broke the original story. The film opens with Coates offscreen describing Tijuana in 1956 as the "sin town of the world." He explains that the Tijuana newspaper man, Manuel Acosta Mesa, was the only person willing to wage war against the "vice lords." Coates, a television personality and reporter for the Los Angeles Mirror-News, then appears on screen and gives a brief history of Acosta Mesa's paper El Imparcial, and describes the paper's campaign against the forces of organized crime in Tijuana, a campaign that began in April 1956 and ended with Acosta Mesa's death on July 31, 1956.
Manuel Acosta Mesa was a journalist and editor of the newspaper El Imparcial who was shot to death on July 26, 1956 at his home in Tijuana. A year later Manuel Duenas was given a six year sentence for his involvement. No other suspect in the case had been publicly named by authorities.
The anti-drug stuff is unintentionally comical. Far from a great film, it is entertaining and well made for a low-budget film and worth seeing.
After Alberto collapses and is rushed to the hospital, Manuel goes to confront Peron Diaz (Paul Newlan), the local crime lord who operates out of a nightclub fronted by American Eddie March (Robert McQueeney). When Manuel demands that Peron pay Alberto's hospital bill, the crime lord's thugs attack him. Eddie, his conscience shaken, helps the injured Manuel out of the club. To silence Manuel, Peron approaches Reuben Galindo (Michael Fox), the owner of ^El Sol , and offers to launch a lucrative ad campaign in the paper if Manuel will tone down his editorials.
After Galindo informs Peron that Manuel's contract allows him complete editorial control, Peron makes a sinister threat against Galindo's family. Soon after, a group of American teenage boys comes to Tijuana looking for a good time. When Mitch James Darren), one of the boys, sees Linda Alvarez (Joy Stoner), the young woman who works as Manuel's secretary, waiting for her bus, he makes a pass at her. Linda slaps him. Later, at Eddie's club, one of the bar girls lures Mitch into buying some marijuana. At home that night, Eddie begins to reevaluate his business relationship with Peron and confides to his pregnant wife Liz that he needs the gangster's financial backing.
Mitch returns to Tijuana to apologize to Linda and the two begin to date. When Mitch's drowned body washes up on some rocks, Manuel blames the syndicate for his and Alberto's deaths and vows to bring down Peron and his men. After Galindo buys out his contract at El Sol , Manuel uses the money to fund El Imparcial , a paper dedicated to reform, and appoints his son, Enrique Acosta Mesa (Robert Blake), as co-editor. When the syndicate uses violence to intimidate the paper's advertisers, the California papers rally behind Manuel.
Eddie and Liz speed toward the border, with Peron's thugs in pursuit. After Peron and his thugs force Eddie at gunpoint to pull over, Eddie tackles the criminals, sending one of the thug's pistol flying into the brush. As Peron and his men beat Eddie, Liz retrieves the weapon and orders Peron to leave. Vowing to tell Manuel all that he knows about the syndicate, Eddie returns to Tijuana with Liz. In the next issue of El Imparcial , Manuel reports that he has a complete list of syndicate members and will deliver it to the Legislative Hearing on Crime in Mexicali. Before he can testify, however, Manuel is slain while standing on his own front porch. At Manuel's funeral, Galindo rallies the mourners to rise against the syndicate and clean up Tijuana. In the next issue of El Imparcial , Enrique issues a call for reform.
A 1957 American low budget film-noir crime B-Movie directed by László Kardos, produced by Sam Katzman, written by Lou Morheim, cinematography by Benjamin H. Kline, starring Rodolfo Acosta, James Darren, Robert McQueeney, Jean Willes, and Robert Blake. Susan Seaforth Hayes's debut screen appearance.
Produced on the quick to take advantage of the news cycle, by producer Sam Katzman, which means poor production values, one-take performances and sensationalized dramatics. This marked character actor Rodolfo Acosta's only starring role.
James Darren, "Gidget" (1959), and Robert Blake, "Baretta", Mickey in "The Little Rascals & Our Gang" both appear in another lesser-known B-Noir, Fred F. Sears' "Rumble on the Docks" (1956).
This fifties semi-documentary style gritty crime thriller "ripped from the pages of todays headlines" purporting to expose the sin, crime, vice and corruption of some major city, was narrated by journalist Paul Coates, who broke the original story. The film opens with Coates offscreen describing Tijuana in 1956 as the "sin town of the world." He explains that the Tijuana newspaper man, Manuel Acosta Mesa, was the only person willing to wage war against the "vice lords." Coates, a television personality and reporter for the Los Angeles Mirror-News, then appears on screen and gives a brief history of Acosta Mesa's paper El Imparcial, and describes the paper's campaign against the forces of organized crime in Tijuana, a campaign that began in April 1956 and ended with Acosta Mesa's death on July 31, 1956.
Manuel Acosta Mesa was a journalist and editor of the newspaper El Imparcial who was shot to death on July 26, 1956 at his home in Tijuana. A year later Manuel Duenas was given a six year sentence for his involvement. No other suspect in the case had been publicly named by authorities.
The anti-drug stuff is unintentionally comical. Far from a great film, it is entertaining and well made for a low-budget film and worth seeing.
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