High Explosive

Two TNT Men... and a girl who's dynamite!

High Explosive — Plot

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
• Runtime
• 63 min
• Genres
• Action, Drama
• Director
• Frank McDonald

High Explosive — Cast

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

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Barbara Lynn Doris Lynch