Far from his famous 60s films 'Tom Jones' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', British director Tony Richardson casts a suitably severe eye on the serious problem of illegal immigration on the Texas-Mexico border. Heading a first-rate cast, Jack Nicholson is reckless enough to appear with a dangerous receding hairline and a hint of a pot-belly as the former cop who refuses to become involved in the wholesale corruption rife amongst his fellow border patrolmen. Even so, his character is no saint and it's hard to care too deeply about the fates of these unfortunate people trapped in the brutally depicted squalor of a Tex-Mex hell.


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