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High Explosive

High Explosive

19431h 3m
ActionDrama

Status

Released

Release

1943

Runtime

1h 3m

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Storyline

"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.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
1h 3m
Mar 27, 1943
Languages
English
Director
Frank McDonald
Frank McDonald
Production
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Pine-Thomas Productions
Pine-Thomas Productions
Production Countries
United States of America

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