Powder Town (1942)

Directors

Rowland V. Lee

Cast

Damian O'Flynn, Dorothy Lovett, Eddie Foy, Jr., Edmond O'Brien, Frank Mills, George Cleveland, June Havoc, Marion Martin, Mary Gordon, Selmer Jackson, Victor McLaglen, Walter Baldwin

The story

Young J. Quincy Pennant is a brilliant but absent-minded scientist who is experimenting with an explosive method which directs a shock wave past obstructions to impact a distant target. He is sent to a rapidly growing "powder town" being developed around an arsenal and munitions factory where population growth has attracted criminals, foreign spies and saboteurs.

Genres

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