Border Devils

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.

[citation needed] A man, Jim Gray, is wrongfully put in jail; he escapes to prove his innocence and reveal the real criminal.

[1] The film features Gabby Hayes in one of his earliest credited roles, a sidekick figure that would become his signature character.

[6] 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.

[3][7][5] 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.