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63% Critic Match
High Explosive
“Two TNT Men... and a girl who's dynamite!”
6.3 / 10• 1943• 1h 3m•NR• English
ActionDrama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Chester Morris
Buzz Mitchell
Lead
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)
BL
Barbara Lynn
Doris Lynch
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Frank McDonald's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. High Explosive is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
