Written by James M. Tate / 5/07/2025 / No comments / expose , fifties , film noir or melodrama , jean wiles , joy stoner , michael fox , robert blake , robert mcqueeney , rodolfo acosta
ANOTHER LATE-1950'S CRIME/NOIR EXPOSÉ 'THE TIJUANA STORY'
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| Title: THE TIJUANA STORY Year: 1957 Rating: ** |
One of those 1950's noir/exposès that includes an actual government official's opening narration, staring into the camera and telling us that this really happened... which is hard to believe since most of the Mexican characters in the titular THE TIJUANA STORY are not only white, but not even attempting to look authentic...
Yet the most intriguing are supposed to be white, Robert McQueeney and Jean Willes, as married, crooked go-betweens for a Mexican crime-boss that's keeping the marijuana-ridden bordertown at bay...
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| Joy Stoner and Rodolfo Acosta in THE TIJUANA STORY |
And in the noir fashion, the two pawns are somewhat nice-at-heart while stuck in dire circumstances, but not enough attention's paid for their suspenseful heat-coming-down demise to matter...
Then there's young good looking James Darren visiting a dope-running nightclub while romancing a cute local girl working for investigative journalist Rodolfo Acosta, famous for exposing the bigwig crime bosses while parenting an intense Robert Blake, another potentially good actor ultimately wasted in what's a patchwork of about four stories that never connect as whole.
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| Adolfo Acosta and Joy Stoner in THE TIJUANA STORY |
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| James Darren and Suzanne Ridgway in THE TIJUANA STORY |
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| Robert McQueeney and Jean Willes in THE TIJUANA STORY |
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| Robert Blake and Rodolfo Acosta in THE TIJUANA STORY |
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| James Darren and Joy Stoner in THE TIJUANA STORY |
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| Michael Fox and Paul Newlan in THE TIJUANA STORY |
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