High Explosive (1943)
Two TNT Men... and a girl who's dynamite!
60 min
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.
- Release date
- March 27, 1943
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Chester Morris as Buzz Mitchell
- Jean Parker as Connie Baker
- Barry Sullivan as Mike Douglas
- Ralph Sanford as Squinchy Andrews
- Rand Brooks as Jimmy Baker
- Dick Purcell as Dave
- Barbara Lynn as Doris Lynch
- Jack Randall as Joe
- Edward Earle as Ashton
- William Hall as Truck Driver
Crew
- Frank McDonald · Director
- Maxwell Shane · Writer
- Howard J. Green · Writer
- Joseph Hoffman · Writer
- Daniele Amfitheatrof · Composer
- Fred Jackman Jr. · Cinematographer
- William H. Ziegler · Editor