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High Explosive (1943)

Directed by Frank McDonald

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), fiancĂ©e 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.

Length 63 minutes

Actors

Chester Morris | Jean Parker | Barry Sullivan | Ralph Sanford | Rand Brooks | Dick Purcell | Addison Randall | Barbara Lynn