{{short description|1932 film}} {{Use American English|date=October 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Border Devils | director = William Nigh | production_companies = Supreme Features, Inc.<ref name=":1"/> | producer = Louis Weiss<br>George M. Merrick<br>Alfred T. Mannon<ref name=":1"/> | writer = Harry L. Fraser | starring = Harry Carey<br>Kathleen Collins<br>Gabby Hayes | cinematography = William H. Dietz | editing = Holbrook Todd | distributor = State Rights | country = United States | language = English | runtime = 63 or 65 minutes | released = {{Film date|1932|04|04}} }}
thumb | right | alt=Lobby card for the American western film Border Devils (1932) with Harry Carey and Kathleen Collins (1903 – 1994). | Lobby card for the American western film Border Devils (1932) with Harry Carey and Kathleen Collins (1903 – 1994). '''''Border Devils''''' is a 1932 pre-Code American Western black and white sound film directed by William Nigh and starring Harry Carey, Kathleen Collins, and Gabby Hayes.<ref name=":1">The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:[https://catalog.afi.com/Film/876-BORDER-DEVILS ''Border Devils'']</ref> The film is Collins's last role and her only sound film.{{cn|date=August 2024}}
==Plot== A man, Jim Gray, is wrongfully put in jail; he escapes to prove his innocence and reveal the real criminal. In the process, Gray discovers a second criminal who has been working behind the scenes with the more obvious villain.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Border Devils (1932) |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/border-devils-v6700 |website=AllMovie |access-date=September 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210921005222/https://www.allmovie.com/movie/border-devils-v6700 |archive-date=September 21, 2021}}</ref>
==Cast== * Harry Carey as Jim Gray * Kathleen Collins as Marcia Brandon * Gabby Hayes as Dude Sanders * Niles Welch as Tom Hope * Olive Carey as Ethel Denham * Albert J. Smith as Inspector Bell * Merrill McCormick as Jose Lopez * Art Mix as Bud Brandon * Tetsu Komai as The General
== Production ==
=== Script === The film was written by Harry P. Crist ( credited for "script and continuity' under this pen name is the American director Harry Fraser<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=» A Western Movie Review by Dan Stumpf: BORDER DEVILS (1932). |url=https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=26611 |access-date=2023-03-20}}</ref>). The story was based upon the novel ''Dead Man's Shoes'',<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Stallings |first1=Billee J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SlzDIV6NKacC&dq=border+devils+leinster&pg=PA213 |title=Murray Leinster: The Life and Works |last2=Evans |first2=Jo-an J. |date=2011-08-12 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8715-8 |language=en}}</ref> by Murray Leinster.<ref name=":0" />
=== Shooting === According to a contemporary issue of ''The'' ''Film Daily'', certain scenes were filmed in Palm Springs, California.<ref name=":1" />
== Cast == The film features Gabby Hayes in one of his earliest credited roles, a sidekick figure that would become his signature character.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2016-11-22 |title=Border Devils (1932) |url=https://theconstantbleeder.com/bmoviescult/border-devils-1932/ |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=The Constant Bleeder |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Release == ''Border Devils'' was theatrically released in the United States on April 4, 1932.<ref name=":1" /> The film was released on DVD in August 2011 by Alpha Video.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Border Devils (1932) On DVD |url=https://www.lovingtheclassics.com/border-devils-1932-on-dvd.html |access-date=2023-03-29 |website=www.lovingtheclassics.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Themes == This film has been noted for the unexpected presence in a Western, of Yellow Peril themes, embodied in the character of the villain, a mysterious 'oriental' criminal figure known as the General.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Border Devils (1932) starring Harry Carey, Kathleen Collins, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Niles Welch, Olive Carey, Albert J. Smith, Tetsu Komai directed by William Nigh Movie Review |url=https://www.themoviescene.co.uk/reviews/border-devils-1932/border-devils-1932.html |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=www.themoviescene.co.uk}}</ref><ref name=":2" />
Commentators generally underline the weight of the original novel, a typical Leinster tale, in this adaptation: "the massive conspiracy that figures in his sci-fi, the shifting identity of the hero, and the generally peripatetic nature of the tale as our cowboy commandos shuttle hither and yon like horsing lot attendant."<ref>{{Cite web |title=» A Western Movie Review by Dan Stumpf: BORDER DEVILS (1932). |url=https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=26611 |access-date=2023-03-29}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022705/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Border Devils at IMDb.com]
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