Illegal Entry (film)

Illegal Entry
Illegal Entry
	Film poster
Directed by	Frederick De Cordova
Written by	Art Cohn; (adaptation)
Screenplay by	Joel Malone
Based on	Ben Bengal; Herbert Kline; Dan Tyler Moore; (as Kline Tyler Moore); (based on a story by)
Produced by	Jules Schermer
Starring	Howard Duff; Märta Torén; George Brent
Cinematography	William H. Daniels
Edited by	Edward Curtiss
Music by	Milton Schwarzwald
Color process	Black and white
Production; company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	June 1, 1949;
Running time	84 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$590,000

Illegal Entry is a 1949 American film noir crime film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Howard Duff, Märta Torén and George Brent.^[2] The film and its treatment of illegal entry and unlawful residence in the United States is introduced by Watson B. Miller, the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service under President Harry S. Truman.

Plot

An undercover agent (Howard Duff) attacks an illicit Mexican border immigrant smuggling operation.

Cast

Howard Duff as Bert Powers
Märta Torén as Anna Duvak O'Neill
George Brent as Chief Agent Dan Collins
Gar Moore as Lee Sloan
Tom Tully as Nick Gruber
Paul Stewart as Zack Richards
Richard Rober as Dutch Lempo
Joseph Vitale as Joe Bottsy
James Nolan as Agent Benson
Clifton Young as Billy Rafferty
David Clarke as Carl
Robert Osterloh as Agent Crowthers
Anthony Caruso as Teague
Donna Martell as Maria

Reception

Critical response

The New York Times film critic, Bosley Crowther, gave the film a mixed review, "A formidable introduction which features Attorney General Tom Clark and certain Immigration Bureau oficials who bespeak that service well does not camouflage Illegal Entry ... Howard Duff plays this hero in an acceptable rough-and-ready style and Marta Toren is attractive as the girl ... The backgrounds of southern California and Mexico are authentic enough. But the whole picture has the quality of a mechanical, oft-repeated show."^[3] The film was given a favorable review in other newspapers including one in the Rushville Republican (Indiana), published on September 27, 1949 [1]

References

^ "U's $1,470,000 Average Prod Cost Pared to 740G Per Pic in 49". Variety. 27 April 1949. p. 6.
^ Illegal Entry at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
^ Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, June 11, 1949. Accessed: July 31, 2013.

External links

Illegal Entry at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Illegal Entry at IMDb
Illegal Entry at AllMovie
Illegal Entry at the TCM Movie Database

[1] "U's $1,470,000 Average Prod Cost Pared to 740G Per Pic in 49". Variety. 27 April 1949. p. 6.

[2] Illegal Entry at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.

[3] Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, June 11, 1949. Accessed: July 31, 2013.

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