Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

Aug 12, 1939

0h 59m

★ 6.0

Run for Your Life!

Overview

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Genres

Action

Crime

Comedy

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Torchy Blane

Jane Wyman

Steve McBride

Allen Jenkins

Gahagan

Tom Kennedy

Jackie McGuire

Sheila Bromley

Maxie

Joe Cunningham

Denver Eddie

Eddie Marr

Jim Simmons

Edgar Dearing

Inspector McTavish

Frank Shannon

Bugsie

Bruce MacFarlane

Harp

George Lloyd

Judge Hershey

Aldrich Bowker

Reporter at Match

John Ridgely

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.

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