Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Theatrical release poster
Directed by William Beaudine
Produced by Bryan Foy
Hal B. Wallis
Jack L. Warner (all uncredited)
Written by Frederick Nebel
Murray Leinster
Screenplay by George Bricker
Starring Glenda Farrell
Barton MacLane
Tom Kennedy
Music by Howard Jackson (uncredited)
Cinematography Warren Lynch
Edited by Frederick Richards
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release dates
  • February 4, 1939 (1939-02-04)

Torchy Blane in Chinatown is a 1939 American crime-comedy film directed by William Beaudine. It stars Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, and Henry O'Neill.[1][2][3] The film was released on February 4, 1939. This is the seventh film in the "Torchy Blane" movie series by Warner Bros.

Plot

Detective Steve McBride is put on the case to protect the lives of people who was involved in smuggling valuable Chinese jades into the country, and is now on the hit list by an Oriental gang. Two of the people on the list Allan Fitzhugh and Dr. Mansfield is killed.

The murders leads to the person whom the killers was really targeting, Senator Baldwin, the owner of the world's largest Chinese jade collection. And the person both Allan Fitzhugh and Dr. Mansfield was working for. He is being blackmailed by the killer for $250,000. Baldwin's son-in-law, Dick Staunton, agrees to pay the money to the extortionist and will meet them on his speedboat in the far end of New York Bay. The exchange is stop by Torchy with the help of the US Navy and her boyfriend Steve McBride.

Cast

Torchy Blane series

References

  1. "Torchy Blane in Chinatown". TCM. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  2. "Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1938)". New York Time. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  3. "Torchy Blane in Chinatown". Moviefone. Retrieved February 22, 2016.

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