Mexican Manhunt

Mexican Manhunt is a 1953 American crime film directed by Rex Bailey and starring George Brent, Hillary Brooke and Morris Ankrum. A Los Angelesbased author travels to Mexico to search for a celebrated journalist who disappeared there many years before.

Trying to make amends for his behavior, Tip gets in touch with Dave Brady, a crime novelist he admires. Dave explains to his best friend, Los Angeles district attorney Dan McCracken, that he intends to travel to Mexico to see Tip in person. McCracken is aware of the circumstances, that Tip was a suspect in a murder case but skipped the country instead.Tip explains to Dave that he was about to expose the killers identitiesyears ago when gangsters Caruthers and Gato forced him to flee to Mexico by threatening his daughters life. He is now ready to return Linda to the land of her birth and face the consequences. But when a hired assassin called Cookie takes a shot at him, Tip realizes that the gangsters are after him. ........

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