Wetbacks (film)

Wetbacks is a 1956 American crime film directed by Hank McCune and starring Lloyd Bridges, Nancy Gates and Barton MacLane. An independent production, the title is a reference to "wetbacks" a now derogatory term for immigrants coming into the United States across the Mexican border. Location shooting took place around Santa Catalina Island and San Pedro in Los Angeles. It has plot similarities to the 1950 film The Breaking Point.

Plot
The United States Coast Guard is concerned by the amount of human trafficking going on with large numbers of illegal immigrants being tricked into entering the country by promises of good jobs, only then to be economically exploited as cheap labor. Meanwhile, ex-Coast Guard officer Jim Benson, running a struggling charter fishing boat business, is reluctantly persuaded to carry a consignment of migrants from Mexico to California.

Cast

 * Lloyd Bridges as Jim Benson
 * Nancy Gates as Sally Parker
 * Barton MacLane as 	Karl Shanks
 * John Hoyt as 	Steve Bodine
 * Harold Peary as 	Juan Ortega
 * Nacho Galindo as 	Alfonso
 * Robert Keys as 	Reeser
 * David Colmans as 	Pedro
 * Louis Jean Heydt as 	Coast Guard Comdr. Randall
 * Roy Gordon as Hoppy
 * I. Stanford Jolley as 	Fred
 * Wally Cassell as 	Coast Guard lieutenant
 * Tom Keene as 	Highway Patrol Inspector
 * Salvador Baguez as Mexican Policeman
 * Jose Gonzales-Gonzales as Immigrant
 * Gene Roth as Truck Thug