Mexican Manhunt is a 1953 American crime film directed by Rex Bailey and starring George Brent, Hillary Brooke and Morris Ankrum.

[1] The screenplay concerns a Los Angeles–based author who travels to Mexico to search for a celebrated journalist who disappeared there many years before.

Tip Morgan's teenaged daughter Linda is upset because her alcoholic father is drinking inside a bar and has a heart condition.

Dave explains to his best friend, Los Angeles district attorney Dan McCracken, that he intends to travel to Mexico to see Tip in person.

Tip explains to Dave that he was about to expose the killers' identities 15 years ago when gangsters Caruthers and Gato forced him to flee to Mexico by threatening his daughter's life.