High Explosive

Mar 27, 1943

1h 3m

★ 5.7

Two TNT Men... and a girl who's dynamite!

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.

Genres

Action

Drama

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Pine-Thomas Productions

High Explosive Trailers

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Cast

Buzz Mitchell

Chester Morris

Connie Baker

Jean Parker

Mike Douglas

Barry Sullivan

Squinchy Andrews

Ralph Sanford

Jimmy Baker

Rand Brooks

Dave

Dick Purcell

Joe (as Allan Byron)

Jack Randall

Doris Lynch

Barbara Lynn

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