The Dividing Line
- IMDb link: 0042669
- IMDb rating: 6.7 (924 votes)
- Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Director: Joseph Losey
- Cast: Gail Russell, Macdonald Carey, Johnny Sands, Lee Patrick and others
- Release date: 9 Jun 1950
- Release year: 1950
- Runtime: 83 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: small town, hunter and m. carey, town, newspaper, editor, small town newspaper, mexican, social commentary, social conscience, lynch mob
Plot:
Former big city newsman Larry Wilder is tired of fighting the powers that be and just wants to enjoy his new life as a small-town newspaper editor. He thinks his bucolic new home will provide him with an easy and unconflicted life. But when a young Latino farmworker is goaded into a fight by racist rich boys, Wilder finds himself the only white citizen of the town willing to stand up for the boy's rights. He joins with Sunny Garcia, a staffer for a small weekly newspaper for the Hispanic workers, in trying to see justice done and possibly to save a life.