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High Explosive

Two TNT Men... and a girl who's dynamite!
Mar 27, 1943 · 1h 3m
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PLOT

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.

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CAST

Chester Morris
Buzz Mitchell
Jean Parker
Connie Baker
Barry Sullivan
Mike Douglas
Ralph Sanford
Squinchy Andrews
Rand Brooks
Jimmy Baker
Dick Purcell
Dave
Jack Randall
Joe (as Allan Byron)
Barbara Lynn
Doris Lynch
Directed by Frank McDonald

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Paramount Pictures, Pine-Thomas Productions
Country
US

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