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* LousyLoversAreLosers: Marie is the young and beautiful wife of the amiable but dimwitted fat Charlie, who is [[MalMariee 20 years older than her and is unable to sexually satisfy her]]. In her sexual frustration, she attempts to cheat on him with Johnny, the virile manager of his casino, but Johnny is too smart to ruin his good job by SleepingWithTheBosssWife and refuses her advances.
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* UptownGirl: Johnny, the lower-middle-class striver, falls hard for Dale, the WASP society girl. She fails to return the favor.
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The lawsuit goes to court but apparently Johnny's law school lessons didn't take, as he horribly botches the case and the suit is summarily dismissed. When Dale's attorney, a sneering arrogant WASP type, mocks him, Johnny punches the WASP in the face. This gets him disbarred. Johnny, who now believes that you can't enter into the ranks of the respectable without money, decides to get money however he can.
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The lawsuit goes to court but apparently Johnny's law school lessons didn't take, as he horribly botches the case and the suit is summarily dismissed. When Dale's attorney, a sneering arrogant WASP [[WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant WASP]] type, mocks him, Johnny punches the WASP in the face. This gets him disbarred. Johnny, who now believes that you can't enter into the ranks of the respectable without money, decides to get money however he can.
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* NouveauRiche: How OldMoney Dale regards Johnny the striver from the lower classes. She clearly got thrills from dating such a "dangerous" character but, in the final confrontation when Johnny asks her to marry him, she says spitefully that he's of a lower class than her and it could never happen.
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* NouveauRiche: How OldMoney Dale regards Johnny Johnny, the ethnic striver from the lower classes. She clearly got gets thrills from dating such a "dangerous" character but, in the final confrontation when Johnny asks her to marry him, she says spitefully that he's of a lower class than her and it could never happen.
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* YouNoTakeCandle: Some racist humor with Marie's Chinese servant Wong, who protests her accusation that he's "creeping around" the house by saying "I no creep.""
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Johnny Ramirez (Muni) is a Mexican-American man living in Los Angeles. Driven by ambition to make something better of himself, Johnny has slaved away for five years going to law school by night, and as the film opens, has just graduated. He has dreams of success, and takes on the case of a humble produce salesman whose truck was hit by Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), a socialite who was driving drunk.
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Johnny Ramirez (Muni) is a Mexican-American man living in Los Angeles. Driven by ambition to make something better of himself, Johnny has slaved away for spent five years slaving away and going to law school by at night, and as the film opens, has just graduated. He has dreams Dreaming of success, and takes he begins his legal career by taking on the case of a humble produce salesman whose truck was hit by Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), a socialite who was driving drunk.
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He gets it in a town just south of the border with Mexico. Johnny gets a job as manager of a casino run by an amiable but dimwitted gringo, Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallette). Under Johnny's management the casino becomes a big success and Johnny gets Charlie to make him a partner, but there's a complication in the person of Charlie's much younger, sexy, horny wife Marie (Davis). Marie overtly hits on Johnny, but Johnny, not wanting to mess up the good thing he has going, refuses her advances. So Marie kills her husband.
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''Bordertown'' is a 1935 film directed by Archie Mayo.
Johnny Ramirez (Creator/PaulMuni) is a Mexican-American man living in Los Angeles. Driven by ambition to make something better of himself, Johnny has slaved away for five years going to law school by night, and as the film opens, has just graduated. He has dreams of success, and takes on the case of a humble produce salesman whose truck was hit by Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), a socialite who was driving drunk.
Johnny Ramirez (Creator/PaulMuni) is a Mexican-American man living in Los Angeles. Driven by ambition to make something better of himself, Johnny has slaved away for five years going to law school by night, and as the film opens, has just graduated. He has dreams of success, and takes on the case of a humble produce salesman whose truck was hit by Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), a socialite who was driving drunk.
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''Bordertown'' is a 1935 drama film directed by Archie Mayo.
Mayo, starring Creator/PaulMuni and Creator/BetteDavis.
Johnny Ramirez(Creator/PaulMuni) (Muni) is a Mexican-American man living in Los Angeles. Driven by ambition to make something better of himself, Johnny has slaved away for five years going to law school by night, and as the film opens, has just graduated. He has dreams of success, and takes on the case of a humble produce salesman whose truck was hit by Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), a socialite who was driving drunk.
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He gets it in a town just south of the border with Mexico. Johnny gets a job as manager of a casino run by an amiable but dimwitted gringo, Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallette). Under Johnny's management the casino becomes a big success and Johnny gets Charlie to make him a partner, but there's a complication in the person of Charlie's much younger, sexy, horny wife Marie (Creator/BetteDavis). Marie overtly hits on Johnny, but Johnny, not wanting to mess up the good thing he has going, refuses her advances. So Marie kills her husband.
1940 film ''Film/TheyDriveByNight'' is a semi-remake.
1940 film ''Film/TheyDriveByNight'' is a semi-remake.
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He gets it in a town just south of the border with Mexico. Johnny gets a job as manager of a casino run by an amiable but dimwitted gringo, Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallette). Under Johnny's management the casino becomes a big success and Johnny gets Charlie to make him a partner, but there's a complication in the person of Charlie's much younger, sexy, horny wife Marie (Creator/BetteDavis).(Davis). Marie overtly hits on Johnny, but Johnny, not wanting to mess up the good thing he has going, refuses her advances. So Marie kills her husband.
The 1940 film ''Film/TheyDriveByNight'' is a semi-remake.
The 1940 film ''Film/TheyDriveByNight'' is a semi-remake.
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: Adapted from the 1934 novel ''Border Town'' by Carroll Graham.
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* RealityEnsues: Johnny goes charging into court with his lawsuit, and proceeds to utterly botch his case and gets himself disbarred. Apparently that night-school law education wasn't a good one.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Johnny goes charging into court with his lawsuit, and proceeds to utterly botch his case and gets himself disbarred. Apparently that night-school law education wasn't a good one.
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* NouveauRiche: How OldMoney Dale regards Johnny the striver from the lower classes. She clearly got thrills from dating such a "dangerous" character but, in the final confrontation when Johnny asks her to marry him, she says spitefully that he's of a lower class than her and it could never happen.
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''Bordertown'' is a 1935 film directed by Archie Mayo.
Johnny Ramirez (Creator/PaulMuni) is a Mexican-American man living in Los Angeles. Driven by ambition to make something better of himself, Johnny has slaved away for five years going to law school by night, and as the film opens, has just graduated. He has dreams of success, and takes on the case of a humble produce salesman whose truck was hit by Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), a socialite who was driving drunk.
The lawsuit goes to court but apparently Johnny's law school lessons didn't take, as he horribly botches the case and the suit is summarily dismissed. When Dale's attorney, a sneering arrogant WASP type, mocks him, Johnny punches the WASP in the face. This gets him disbarred. Johnny, who now believes that you can't enter into the ranks of the respectable without money, decides to get money however he can.
He gets it in a town just south of the border with Mexico. Johnny gets a job as manager of a casino run by an amiable but dimwitted gringo, Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallette). Under Johnny's management the casino becomes a big success and Johnny gets Charlie to make him a partner, but there's a complication in the person of Charlie's much younger, sexy, horny wife Marie (Creator/BetteDavis). Marie overtly hits on Johnny, but Johnny, not wanting to mess up the good thing he has going, refuses her advances. So Marie kills her husband.
1940 film ''Film/TheyDriveByNight'' is a semi-remake.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: You wouldn't get disbarred for punching someone in court. Maybe prosecuted for assault, but not disbarred.
* {{Brownface}}: Paul Muni, an Eastern European Jew, wearing makeup to play a Mexican.
* ChekhovsGun: After the extended discussion where Charlie shows off his remote-operated garage door for Johnny, it's not hard to guess that the garage and door will be important. Sure enough, Marie leaves a drunk Charlie in there with the engine running, then uses the remote control censor to close the door, leaving Charlie to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
* DrowningMySorrows: The priest observes Johnny's intoxication after his disbarment, and Johnny says "I had to do something to keep from thinking."
* DrunkDriving: Why Dale plowed her car into a produce peddler's truck. Since it's 1935 and she's rich, she suffers no consequences.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Marie's bedroom eyes and the way she purrs "Hello, Johnny" when she sees him at the nightclub tell the viewer exactly what her deal is.
* ExplodingCalendar: Months torn off a calendar illustrate the TimeSkip of nearly a year before Act II finds Johnny in Mexico working as manager of a casino.
* MalMariee: It's not explained how young, curvy Marie got married to a dimwitted fat guy who's a good 20 years older than she is. However it happened, she clearly loathes him and she's sexually frustrated, so she sets her sights on Johnny.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Charlie is mopping sweat from his big bald dome as some shady types lean on him to sell his casino. Johnny's presence gives Charlie the courage to say "no".
* RealityEnsues: Johnny goes charging into court with his lawsuit, and proceeds to utterly botch his case and gets himself disbarred. Apparently that night-school law education wasn't a good one.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Both Dale and Marie wear backless cocktail dresses when they go out clubbing.
* VideoCredits: At the start of the film as was Warner Brothers house style during this era.
* WidowsWeeds: Marie, who killed her husband, wears the black dress and veil when selling the local cops her story that Charlie's death was an accident.
* WomanScorned: After Johnny says he's still not interested in her after Charlie's death, but prefers Dale, Marie goes back to the cops and accuses Johnny of masterminding Charlie's murder. He gets arrested and probably would have gone to prison, but she has a mental breakdown on the stand.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Some racist humor with Marie's Chinese servant Wong, who protests her accusation that he's "creeping around" the house by saying "I no creep."
Johnny Ramirez (Creator/PaulMuni) is a Mexican-American man living in Los Angeles. Driven by ambition to make something better of himself, Johnny has slaved away for five years going to law school by night, and as the film opens, has just graduated. He has dreams of success, and takes on the case of a humble produce salesman whose truck was hit by Dale Elwell (Margaret Lindsay), a socialite who was driving drunk.
The lawsuit goes to court but apparently Johnny's law school lessons didn't take, as he horribly botches the case and the suit is summarily dismissed. When Dale's attorney, a sneering arrogant WASP type, mocks him, Johnny punches the WASP in the face. This gets him disbarred. Johnny, who now believes that you can't enter into the ranks of the respectable without money, decides to get money however he can.
He gets it in a town just south of the border with Mexico. Johnny gets a job as manager of a casino run by an amiable but dimwitted gringo, Charlie Roark (Eugene Pallette). Under Johnny's management the casino becomes a big success and Johnny gets Charlie to make him a partner, but there's a complication in the person of Charlie's much younger, sexy, horny wife Marie (Creator/BetteDavis). Marie overtly hits on Johnny, but Johnny, not wanting to mess up the good thing he has going, refuses her advances. So Marie kills her husband.
1940 film ''Film/TheyDriveByNight'' is a semi-remake.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: You wouldn't get disbarred for punching someone in court. Maybe prosecuted for assault, but not disbarred.
* {{Brownface}}: Paul Muni, an Eastern European Jew, wearing makeup to play a Mexican.
* ChekhovsGun: After the extended discussion where Charlie shows off his remote-operated garage door for Johnny, it's not hard to guess that the garage and door will be important. Sure enough, Marie leaves a drunk Charlie in there with the engine running, then uses the remote control censor to close the door, leaving Charlie to die of carbon monoxide poisoning.
* DrowningMySorrows: The priest observes Johnny's intoxication after his disbarment, and Johnny says "I had to do something to keep from thinking."
* DrunkDriving: Why Dale plowed her car into a produce peddler's truck. Since it's 1935 and she's rich, she suffers no consequences.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Marie's bedroom eyes and the way she purrs "Hello, Johnny" when she sees him at the nightclub tell the viewer exactly what her deal is.
* ExplodingCalendar: Months torn off a calendar illustrate the TimeSkip of nearly a year before Act II finds Johnny in Mexico working as manager of a casino.
* MalMariee: It's not explained how young, curvy Marie got married to a dimwitted fat guy who's a good 20 years older than she is. However it happened, she clearly loathes him and she's sexually frustrated, so she sets her sights on Johnny.
* OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Charlie is mopping sweat from his big bald dome as some shady types lean on him to sell his casino. Johnny's presence gives Charlie the courage to say "no".
* RealityEnsues: Johnny goes charging into court with his lawsuit, and proceeds to utterly botch his case and gets himself disbarred. Apparently that night-school law education wasn't a good one.
* SexyBacklessOutfit: Both Dale and Marie wear backless cocktail dresses when they go out clubbing.
* VideoCredits: At the start of the film as was Warner Brothers house style during this era.
* WidowsWeeds: Marie, who killed her husband, wears the black dress and veil when selling the local cops her story that Charlie's death was an accident.
* WomanScorned: After Johnny says he's still not interested in her after Charlie's death, but prefers Dale, Marie goes back to the cops and accuses Johnny of masterminding Charlie's murder. He gets arrested and probably would have gone to prison, but she has a mental breakdown on the stand.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Some racist humor with Marie's Chinese servant Wong, who protests her accusation that he's "creeping around" the house by saying "I no creep."
