torchy blane

9 movies and shows

Torchy Blane in Panama

Sat, 07 May 1938

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Thu, 02 Feb 1939

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector and death-threats written in Chinese characters.

Torchy Runs for Mayor

Sat, 13 May 1939

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

Sat, 12 Aug 1939

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

When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

Torchy Gets Her Man

Sat, 12 Nov 1938

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.

Fly Away Baby

Sat, 19 Jun 1937

Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

The Adventurous Blonde

Sat, 13 Nov 1937

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.

Smart Blonde

Sat, 02 Jan 1937

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.