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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })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. (In Real Life, the first successful artificial rubber, neoprene, was invented around the time this movie was made.). Gar swings into action, creating a corporation out of nowhere, recruiting an army of salesmen, getting a hobo named Clifford Gray (Guy Kibbee) to pretend to be president of the company, and making the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company" the hot new thing on Wall Street—all before they've actually made any artificial rubber.Gar attracts the unfavorable attention of natural rubber companies, who in turn inform law enforcement. In fact, the only thing separating Gar from a pump and dump con artist is that he believes that at some point his company will produce artificial rubber and the stockholders actually will make money. So when he finds out that the inventor who was supposed to make rubber out of sewage is both a fraud and a lunatic, he realizes that he's in a lot of trouble.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 Deus ex Machina: Just when it seems Gar is facing disaster—financial ruin for his investors, prison for himself—the representative from the consortium of natural rubber companies buys out the shares of Golden Gate Artificial Rubber, because it's a "nuisance" hurting natural rubber stock prices. His investors wind up making a profit and Gar actually gets a handsome dividend.
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 And the Adventure Continues
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 And the Adventure Continues: At the end Gar pleads with Francine that he'll quit the financial speculation game: they'll get married, he'll go straight, he'll get a regular job. He has barely gotten the words out of his mouth when Mike approaches him with a new client, some dude from Alaska who wants to market spruce wood. The film ends with Gar huckstering again, much to Francine's disgust.
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 Anti-Hero: Gar clearly skirts the edge of being a full-on con artist, going through the whole pump-and-dump playbook of basically faking a successful business. The only difference is that while a pump-and-dump perpetrator knows the stock is worthless, Gar thinks that they actually will make rubber. Later, it's revealed that Gar used to run a diploma mill in the 1920s.
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