Border Incident is a 1949 American film noir featuring Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, and Howard Da Silva.

The film was among a number of lower budgeted movies produced at MGM under the regime of Dore Schary.

John [Alton] and I had thought of doing Border Incident, because the guys there were also involved with the Federal agents and T Men.

These are 'wide' but not 'open' spaces, as Alton's beautifully registered grey-toned but grim visuals make the distant horizons as closed as the American border.

The constant presence of vulnerable, innocent peasants adds a piquancy to Border Incident, raising the stakes from the destiny of a mere two police agents to that of an entire underclass.