High Explosive

Release Date: 1943-03-27

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.

Rating: 5.7 / 10

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

Crew

Frank McDonald - Director
Joseph Hoffman - Story
Maxwell Shane - Screenplay
Howard J. Green - Screenplay

Reviews

CinemaSerf:

Barry Sullivan is a sort of Red Adair type, his company uses high explosives to put out dangerous fires. He recruits his old pal "Buzz" (Chester Morris) to help ship the nitro around and is rewarded b...