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1943

High Explosive

Directed by Frank McDonald
Two TNT Men... and a girl who's dynamite!

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.

Duration

1h 3m

Released

March 27, 1943

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Cast8

  • Chester Morris
  • Jean Parker
  • Barry Sullivan
  • Ralph Sanford
  • Rand Brooks
  • Dick Purcell
  • Jack Randall
  • Barbara Lynn

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