Mexican Manhunt

Sep 13, 1953

1h 11m

★ 5.8

MURDER WAS HIS PASSPORT!

Overview

Los Angeles, 1953. The author David L. "Dave" Brady wants to bring a missed ex-newspaperman back to Los Angeles. Therefore Dave has to travel to Mexico City. Dave gets involved with a murder case that occurred fifteen years ago. It's an obsession for Dave to solve that murder.

Genres

Mystery

Crime

Production Companies

Allied Artists Pictures

Lindsley Parsons Picture Corporation

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Cast

David L. 'Dave' Brady

George Brent

Eve Carter

Hillary Brooke

Tip Morgan

Morris Ankrum

Linda Morgan

Karen Sharpe

Pablo Armendariz

Alberto Morin

Sheila Barton

Marjorie Lord

Daniel L. "Danny" McCracken

Douglas Kennedy

Slick Caruthers

Carleton Young

Marvin Press

Lucky Gato

Stuart Randall

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

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