Melvin and Howard

Howard Hughes is discovered lying on the side of a stretch of U.S. Highway 95 when Melvin Dummar stops his pickup truck so he can relieve himself. The disheveled stranger is dropped off at the Desert Inn (which Hughes owns and therein resides) without revealing his identity as the reclusive billionaire. Most of the film focuses on Melvin's scattered, up-and-down life, his spendthrift, trust-in-luck nature.