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High Explosive

(1943)

March 27, 1943 1h 3m
63%
TMDB Score

Overview

Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto cars who has been banned from racing, to go to work hauling nitro. "Buzz" makes a play for Connie Baker (Jean Parker), Mike's secretary and girlfriend, and also for Doris Lynch (Barbara Lynn), fiancée of Connie's younger brother, Jimmy ('Rand Brooks'), and gets Jimmy to replace him on a dangerous nitro haul and Jimmy, of course, has an accident and gets killed. But "Buzz" finds a way to redeem himself. The hard way.

Frank McDonald

Director

Top Billed Cast

CM

Chester Morris

Buzz Mitchell

JP

Jean Parker

Connie Baker

BS

Barry Sullivan

Mike Douglas

RS

Ralph Sanford

Squinchy Andrews

RB

Rand Brooks

Jimmy Baker

DP

Dick Purcell

Dave

JR

Jack Randall

Joe (as Allan Byron)

BL

Barbara Lynn

Doris Lynch