The Hitch Hiker (1953) directed by Ida Lupino with Edmond O’Brien, William Talman and Frank Lovejoy

Myers (Talman), is publicized in newspaper headlines. Two friends, Roy Collins (O’Brien) and Gilbert Bowen (Lovejoy), are driving in southern California toward a planned fishing trip in the Mexican town of San Felipe on the Gulf of California. Just south of Mexicali, they pick up Myers, who pulls a gun and takes them forces them to journey over dirt roads into the Baja California Peninsula toward Santa Rosalía, where he plans to take a ferry across the Gulf of California to Guaymas.