High Explosive
6.3
“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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Cast
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Chester Morris
Buzz Mitchell
Known for
The Big House
The Divorcee
Jean Parker
Connie Baker
Known for
The Flying Deuces
The Gunfighter
Barry Sullivan
Mike Douglas
Known for
Planet of the Vampires
Forty Guns
Ralph Sanford
Squinchy Andrews
Known for
Champion
Union Station
Rand Brooks
Jimmy Baker
Known for
Gone with the Wind
Comanche Station
Dick Purcell
Dave
Known for
King of the Zombies
The Bank Dick
Jack Randall
Joe (as Allan Byron)
Also in
Across the Plains
The Mexicali Kid
Barbara Lynn
Doris Lynch
Also in
Tales of Manhattan
Frank McDonald Director · Maxwell Shane Screenplay Howard J. Green Screenplay
United States release March 27, 1943 · Produced in United States · Production Pine-Thomas Productions
Production
Paramount Pictures
Production
Pine-Thomas Productions
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 27, 1943
Theatrical
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