Bordertown

That master of characterizations, Muni, is this time a swarthy Mexican lawyer whose lack of courtroom decorum and procedure, coupled with a volatile nature, gets him disbarred during his first case. He becomes a bouncer in a bordertown nightclub owned by Pallette. Davis is the portly owner's wife who immediately begins to make a play for Muni, but he rebuffs her, pursuing Lindsay, a cultured woman from high society who loves slumming in the bordertown dives. (Lindsay calls the darkly-made-up Muni "Savage.") In desperation, Davis thinks to free herself of Pallette so the discriminating Muni (he won't dally with a married woman) will feel proper in wooing her. Davis ...