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Mexican Manhunt (1953)

Mexican Manhunt poster
Directed by
Rex Bailey
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 11m
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A writer from Los Angeles goes to Mexico to find a famous journalist who vanished long ago. He follows clues through small towns and meets people who might know what happened.

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What happens

Mexican Manhunt is a 1953 American crime film directed by Rex Bailey and starring George Brent, Hillary Brooke and Morris Ankrum. The screenplay concerns a Los Angeles–based author who travels to Mexico to search for a celebrated journalist who disappeared there many years before. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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