High Pressure

IMDb link: 0023007
IMDb rating: 6.6 (842 votes)
Genres: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: William Powell, John Wray, Evelyn Brent, George Sidney and others

Release date: 30 Jan 1932
Release year: 1932
Runtime: 73 minutes
Country: United States
Keywords: bare chested male, male in a shower, female jealousy, artificial rubber, speakeasy, business competitor, marriage engagement, preliminary injunction, crackpot inventor, nutty scientist

Plot:

Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and persuades a lot of people to invest. He believes that the process to produce artificial rubber exists, but does it?

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