Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Edgar Dearing
- Jim Simmons
- (as Edgar Deering)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJane Wyman, who plays Torchy in this film, appeared as the hat check girl in the first Torchy Blane feature.
- GoofsJust after McBride and Gahagan get in to a cab outside the bookstore, there is a close up shot of the license plate which reads "X3075". In the next shot, as the cab pulls up outside a building, the license plate reads "Z8546".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Inside the Dream Factory (1995)
Featured review
Speeding Gets Torchy A Scoop
For the final entry of this series, Torchy Blane, girl reporter on a quaint metropolitan New York newspaper gets herself pinched speeding to file a story. Turns out to be a lucky break because she gets tossed into jail with Sheila Bromley, girlfriend of notorious bank robber Eddie Marr.
The original stars of the series, Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane as NYPD Detective Steve McBride were replaced by Jane Wyman and Allen Jenkins. This may have been the only time in screen history that Allen Jenkins got the girl. They were fine in the parts, but the public didn't accept them and the series was discontinued.
Along though for the final ride was Tom Kennedy who was McBride's cop sidekick as he was for the rest of the series. Kennedy was a former boxer who was also a former wrestler. Familiarity with the squared circle plays an important part in what was a most interesting climax to the film.
Torchy Plays With Dynamite was something I'm sure entertained many people on the double bill who might have come to see one of Warner Brothers big budget attractions like Dodge City in 1939. It's fast paced and amusing and no one I'm sure walked out.
The original stars of the series, Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane as NYPD Detective Steve McBride were replaced by Jane Wyman and Allen Jenkins. This may have been the only time in screen history that Allen Jenkins got the girl. They were fine in the parts, but the public didn't accept them and the series was discontinued.
Along though for the final ride was Tom Kennedy who was McBride's cop sidekick as he was for the rest of the series. Kennedy was a former boxer who was also a former wrestler. Familiarity with the squared circle plays an important part in what was a most interesting climax to the film.
Torchy Plays With Dynamite was something I'm sure entertained many people on the double bill who might have come to see one of Warner Brothers big budget attractions like Dodge City in 1939. It's fast paced and amusing and no one I'm sure walked out.
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- bkoganbing
- Nov 1, 2007
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Dead or Alive
- Filming locations
- 1355 North Cahuenga Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA(old fire station No. 27, now LAFD Museum and Memorial - archive footage of fire trucks leaving a fire station)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime59 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939) officially released in Canada in English?
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