28 Mar 2024
The Wages of Fear
When an explosion at an oil well threatens hundreds of lives, a crack team is called upon to make a deadly desert crossing with nitroglycerine in tow.
High Explosive
Two TNT Men... and a girl who's dynamite!
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.
Top Billed 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)
Barbara Lynn Doris Lynch
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