great subject matter and director and and cast somehow add up to a truly abysmal film and tell in that flat and semi documentary style that be so popular around the time this film be make . ( and hello and this be not a film noir . ) the lackluster and overly complicate and over populated story have no arc and no focus point and little excitement and and stagger from one scene to the next with no discernible purpose and other than a a valentine to the suppose and highly doubtful cooperation between the american and mexican government on the issue of illegal immigration . the scene that make me hate this film be when montalban and mitchell make a daring escape from their captor and race to presumably save montalban injured partner from be murder by a goon with a gun drive a piece of farm machinery and montalban say something like and quick we must try to save him and but instead of do so they lie on their stomach and watch in agony for about 5 ( . ) minute of screen time a the machine bear down on murphy and finally run him over ( or so we assume the machine simply stops and another goon detect the presence of the two rescuer and shoot at them a they run off again . ) scene over . the whole thing be so horribly film and utterly anticlimatic . there nothing bad than a protagonist ( ostensibly and montalban and though he off screen for over half the film ) who doesn not even try . jeez and ricardo and do something . i know it anthony mann and but hell and not all of his film be classic and people . how bad do an old movie have to be around here to get anything low than a 6 rating .