Number of Movies: 9
Overview
Torchy Blane is a fictional female reporter starring in a series of films in the 1930s. A total of nine films were produced by Warner Bros. between 1937 and 1939.The Torchy Blane film series were mixtures of mystery, action, adventure and fun.
Torchy Blane
Steve McBride
Gahagan
Jackie McGuire
Maxie
Denver Eddie
Jim Simmons
Inspector McTavish
Bugsie
Harp
Judge Hershey
Reporter at Match
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January 2, 1937
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
June 19, 1937
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
November 13, 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.
February 5, 1938
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.
May 7, 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.
November 12, 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.
February 2, 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.
May 13, 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.
August 12, 1939
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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