High Pressure (film)

High Pressure is a 1932 American PreCode comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring William Powell and Evelyn Brent. It is based on the play Hot Money by Aben Kandel.

Gar quickly incorporates the Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company, rents a whole floor of a building, installs old crony Clifford Gray Guy Kibbee as president, gives Helen Wilson Evalyn Knapp a job as a secretary, and hires a lot of highpressure salesmen to sell shares. As news spreads, natural rubber company stock prices start to fall, and Mr. Banks Charles Middleton offers to buy the company on behalf of the established rubber firms, but the bid is too low for Gar. Banks then threatens to get an injunction preventing sales of Gars shares pending an investigation. Gar welcomes it.However, Ginsburg promoted to Colonel by Gar, has misplaced the inventor of the process, Dr. Rudolph Pfeiffer Harry Beresford. When he is finally located and set to work making a sample, Gar invites scientists to inspect the finished product, only to discover that Pfeiffer is a deranged crackpot his next invention involves hens laying already decorated Easter eggs. Francine quits in disgust and prepares to sail to South America and marry Seor Rodriguez. Despite his lawyers advice to flee to another state, Gar insists on taking full responsibility. ........

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