Good Mexican-set (and filmed) thriller, essentially a prolonged cross-country chase, in which we work out who Mitchum is and why he's chasing Patric Knowles, and why William Bendix is chasing him. With amusing interventions from Mexican Chief Inspector Ramon Novarro. Jane Greer proves she's no slouch behind the wheel. Loved the moment when Greer stops her car to consider the route, then Mitchum pops up out of her boot. "What do you think you're doing?" she asks, not unnaturally.
Screenplay 'Geoffrey Homes' - the pen name for author Daniel Mainwaring, with novels like 'Build My Gallows High' (filmed as Out of the Past) - and Gerald Drayson Adams, from the story 'The Road to Carmichael's' by Richard Wormer.
Shot by Harry Wild and music by Leigh Harline (for a change). RKO.
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