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High Explosive

5.7 63 mins Action   Drama   1943
Paramount Pictures   Pine-Thomas Productions  
Director(s): Frank McDonald

Release Date: 27 Sat, Mar 1943

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.

Casts of High Explosive

Chester Morris

as Buzz Mitchell

Jean Parker

as Connie Baker

Barry Sullivan

as Mike Douglas

Ralph Sanford

as Squinchy Andrews

Rand Brooks

as Jimmy Baker

Dick Purcell

as Dave

Jack Randall

as Joe (as Allan Byron)

Barbara Lynn

as Doris Lynch

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