Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.
Acting
Ed Harris in an early role as a smarmy opportunist.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI border terrain shot on actual dangerous locations.
Director
Jerrold Freedman
Charles Bronson
Jeb Maynard
Bruno Kirby
Jimmy Fante
Bert Remsen
Carl J. Richards
Michael Lerner
Henry Lydell
Kenneth McMillan
Malcolm Wallace
Ed Harris
Hotchkiss
Karmin Murcelo
Elena Morales
Enrique Castillo
Arturo
Wilford Brimley
Scooter Jackson
Norman Alden
Willie Lambert
Panchito Gómez
Benito Morales
John Ashton
Charlie Monroe
Lawrence P. Casey
Andy Davis
Charles Cyphers
Ski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Bronson's 'smaller' 80s films between Death Wish sequels, shot on a modest $5 million budget.
The film's tagline about the 'American dream' becoming a 'nightmare' deliberately echoed Reagan-era immigration anxieties that would explode politically for decades.
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