The Tijuana Story

Here's why they call Tijuana America's bargain basement of sin!

Courageous newspaper editor Manuel Acosta Mesa tries to take on the mob in Tijuana through his newspaper, reporting on the violence, prostitution and drug sales in the border town.

1957

1h 12min

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Top Billed Cast

Rodolfo Acosta
Manuel Acosta Mesa
James Darren
Mitch
Robert McQueeney
Eddie March
Jean Willes
Liz March
Joy Stoner
Linda
Paul Newlan
Peron Diaz
George E. Stone
Pino
Michael Fox
Reuben Galindo
Robert Blake
Enrique Acosta Mesa
Eddie Baker
Eumenio Blanco
Phil Bloom
Abel Fernandez
Elias Gamboa
Leonard P. Geer
Sol Gorss
Sol Murgi
Suzanne Ridgway
Susan Seaforth Hayes
William Tannen

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