**SPOILERS** With her hard hitting articles on city corruption hitting their mark newspaper reporter Torchy Blane, Glenda Farrell, soon gets a bit ahead of herself in bugging mobster Doc Dolan's, John Mijan, office. Dolan is behind Mayor John Saunder's re-election campaign whom he, and his mob, controls like a puppet on a string. But Without a court order, which she doesn't have, Torchy's evidence against Dolan would be thrown out of court before it ever reached the light of day.
We have Torchy get her hands on Dolan's "Little Red", or political payoff, book that has him use all his influence-by withdrawing advertisement to the newspaper that she works for-to have Torchy canned from her job as the papers star ace reporter. Not scared off at all by Dolan's tactics Torchy gets a job at a rival paper and continues her attacks, in print, on both Dolan and his stooge in City Hall Mayor Saunders. With the articles by Torchy hitting home the paper's-The Blotter- editor Hurbert Ward,Irving Bacon, is drafted by the people to run against Mayor Saunders in the upcoming city elections. This leads to Ward getting whacked by one of Dolan's hoods Spuds O'Brian, Joe Downing, and made to look like he was the victim of a love triangle gone wrong.
With no one in city politics willing to run against Mayor Saunders and take on the Dolan Mob who's backing him It's then that Torchy on the advice-or practical joke-of her fiancée Det. Steve McBride, Barton MacLane, decides to run for mayor herself! This opens a whole new can of worms for Torchy in that she now has the full force of the Doc Dolan political machine bearing down on her. Something that the plucky and fast talking Torchy Blane seemed to have been totally unprepared for!
The last of the Glenda Farrell Torchy Blane films and one of her best. It's also the film where Torchy and her long suffering boyfriend, in having to put up with her zany antics, Det. McBride finally tied the knot. But only after McBride together with his partner, police Irish Poet, Gahagan, Tom Kennedy, find out where the Dolan gang hid Torchy after they drugged and kidnapped her. With both McBride & Gahagan together with about a half dozen policemen coming to Torchy's rescue Dolan slipped out the back making his escape in Gahagan's police car.***SPOILER*** If Doc Dolan only knew what his gang, without them telling him, had done to Gahagan's car he may well have gotten away. The fact that they didn't had Dolan press the wrong button, or car floorboard, which instantly turned him into a blob of highway roadkill!
We have Torchy get her hands on Dolan's "Little Red", or political payoff, book that has him use all his influence-by withdrawing advertisement to the newspaper that she works for-to have Torchy canned from her job as the papers star ace reporter. Not scared off at all by Dolan's tactics Torchy gets a job at a rival paper and continues her attacks, in print, on both Dolan and his stooge in City Hall Mayor Saunders. With the articles by Torchy hitting home the paper's-The Blotter- editor Hurbert Ward,Irving Bacon, is drafted by the people to run against Mayor Saunders in the upcoming city elections. This leads to Ward getting whacked by one of Dolan's hoods Spuds O'Brian, Joe Downing, and made to look like he was the victim of a love triangle gone wrong.
With no one in city politics willing to run against Mayor Saunders and take on the Dolan Mob who's backing him It's then that Torchy on the advice-or practical joke-of her fiancée Det. Steve McBride, Barton MacLane, decides to run for mayor herself! This opens a whole new can of worms for Torchy in that she now has the full force of the Doc Dolan political machine bearing down on her. Something that the plucky and fast talking Torchy Blane seemed to have been totally unprepared for!
The last of the Glenda Farrell Torchy Blane films and one of her best. It's also the film where Torchy and her long suffering boyfriend, in having to put up with her zany antics, Det. McBride finally tied the knot. But only after McBride together with his partner, police Irish Poet, Gahagan, Tom Kennedy, find out where the Dolan gang hid Torchy after they drugged and kidnapped her. With both McBride & Gahagan together with about a half dozen policemen coming to Torchy's rescue Dolan slipped out the back making his escape in Gahagan's police car.***SPOILER*** If Doc Dolan only knew what his gang, without them telling him, had done to Gahagan's car he may well have gotten away. The fact that they didn't had Dolan press the wrong button, or car floorboard, which instantly turned him into a blob of highway roadkill!