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High Explosive

High Explosive

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 27, 1943

Runtime

1h 3m

Genres

Action, Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

High Explosive

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures, Pine-Thomas Productions

Director

Frank McDonald

Description

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.