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High Pressure is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring William Powell and Evelyn Brent. It is based on the play Hot Money by Aben Kandel. The film is preserved at the Library of Congress and in the Warner Archive.
High Pressure: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With William Powell, Evelyn Brent, George Sidney, John Wray. Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success.
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- Comedy
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1932-01-30
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TCM Emails. William Powell is a scheming promoter who tries to get rich selling artificial rubber in the comedy High Pressure (1932).
1h 14m 1932. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A scheming promoter tries to get rich selling artificial rubber. Cast & Crew. Read More. Mervyn Leroy. Director. William Powell. Gar Evans. Evelyn Brent. Francine [Dell] George Sidney. Ginsberg. John Wray. Jimmy Moore. Evalyn Knapp.
- Mervyn Leroy
- William Powell
High Pressure is a 1932 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Gar Evans (William Powell) is a Wall Street "promoter", a sort of hype man who promotes stocks. A guy named Ginsburg comes to him and tells him that he knows an inventor who has a process of making artificial rubber from sewage.
High Pressure. 1932. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a “Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company”, and he is looking for investors. Finding them is relatively easy, but it becomes difficult when those want to see the inventor of the synthetic rubber… Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
