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Two TNT Men... and a girl who's dynamite! - High Explosive
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Title: High Explosive

Release Date: 27 Mar 1943

Runtime: 1h 3m

Genre: Action, Drama

Director: Paramount Pictures, Pine-Thomas Productions

Production Companies: Paramount Pictures, Pine-Thomas Productions

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 5.7 (3 votes)

Cast

  • Buzz Mitchell: Chester Morris
  • Connie Baker: Jean Parker
  • Mike Douglas: Barry Sullivan
  • Squinchy Andrews: Ralph Sanford
  • Jimmy Baker: Rand Brooks
  • Dave: Dick Purcell
  • Joe (as Allan Byron): Jack Randall
  • Doris Lynch: Barbara Lynn
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