The Tijuana Story
Film poster
Directed byLeslie Kardos
Written byLou Morheim
Produced bySam Katzman
CinematographyBenjamin H. Kline
Edited byEdwin H. Bryant
Production
company
Clover Productions
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • October 1957 (1957-10)
Running time
73 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Tijuana Story is a 1957 American film noir crime film directed by Leslie Kardos.[1]

Plot

A Mexican newspaperman wages a one-man war against a powerful crime syndicate.

Cast

Production

Manuel Acosta Mesa was a journalist and editor of the newspaper El Imparcial who was shot to death on 26 July 1956 at his home in Tijuana.[2] A year later Manuel Duenas was given a six year sentence for his involvement. No other suspect in the case had been publicly named by authorities.[3]

The film was narrated by journalist Paul Coates who broke the original story. It was shot on location in Mexico.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Tijuana Story (1957)". Archived from the original on March 12, 2016.
  2. ^ "Mexican newsman slain by assassins". Stockton Evening and Sunday Record. 28 July 1956. p. 26.
  3. ^ "Editor Death Suspect Gets 6 Year Term". The Los Angeles Times. 31 July 1957. p. 43.
  4. ^ Blottner, Gene (17 March 2015). Columbia Noir: A Complete Filmography, 1940-1962. ISBN 9780786470143.

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