High Explosive (1943)

  • NR
  • 03/27/1943 (US)
  • Action, Drama
  • 1h 3m

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.

Frank McDonald

Director

Maxwell Shane

Screenplay

Joseph Hoffman

Story

Howard J. Green

Screenplay

Cast

Chester Morris's headshot

Chester Morris

Buzz Mitchell
Jean Parker's headshot

Jean Parker

Connie Baker
Barry Sullivan's headshot

Barry Sullivan

Mike Douglas
Ralph Sanford's headshot

Ralph Sanford

Squinchy Andrews
Rand Brooks's headshot

Rand Brooks

Jimmy Baker
Dick Purcell's headshot

Dick Purcell

Dave
Jack Randall's headshot

Jack Randall

Joe (as Allan Byron)
Barbara Lynn's headshot

Barbara Lynn

Doris Lynch

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