Torchy Gets Her Man

Nov 12, 1938

1h 3m

★ 5.6

Torchy Puts All Her Yeggs In One Basket... And Cracks A Crime Trust Wide Open!

Overview

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Torchy Gets Her Man Trailers

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Cast

Torchy Blane

Glenda Farrell

Detective Steve McBride

Barton MacLane

Gahagan

Tom Kennedy

Charles Gilbert

Willard Robertson

Henchman Gloomy (as Tommy Jackson)

Thomas E. Jackson

Desk Sergeant Graves

George Guhl

The Professor - Henchman

Frank Reicher

Henchman Bugs

John Ridgely

Maxie

Joe Cunningham

Tom Brennan

Herbert Rawlinson

Mr. Schmidt (uncredited)

Nat Carr

Marie - Gang Moll (uncredited)

Loia Cheaney

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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