Torchy Gets Her Man

Torchy Gets Her Man

Theatrical release poster
Directed by William Beaudine
Produced by Jack L. Warner
Hal B. Wallis
Screenplay by Albert DeMond
Starring Glenda Farrell
Barton MacLane
Tom Kennedy
Music by Howard Jackson
Cinematography Warren Lynch
Arthur L. Todd
Edited by Harold McLernon
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • November 12, 1938 (1938-11-12)
Running time
 63 min
Country United States
Language English

Torchy Gets Her Man is a 1938 crime-mystery film directed by William Beaudine. Starring Glenda Farrell as Torchy Blane and Barton MacLane as Detective Steve McBride, with Tom Kennedy and Willard Robertson. The film was released on November 12, 1938. This is the sixth film in a series of "Torchy Blane" movies by Warner Bros.[1][2][3]

Plot

Notorious counterfeiter "100 Dollar Bill" Bailey, has eluded police capture for fifteen years. He brazenly passes himself off as Secret Service agent Charles Gilbert (Willard Robertson) to Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) and Captain McTavish, and recruits police help in what they think will be a sting operation at the local racetrack to catch Bailey. Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) is annoyed at her fiancée Detective Steve McBride, when he keeps her in the dark about the counterfeit ring that he and Gilbert are tracking down.

Gilbert plans to pass off and launder his phony bills for the real thing at the Hollywood Race Track, together with a number of his accomplices posing as horse bettors. McBride's friend and chauffeur Gahagan (Tom Kennedy) is at Hollywood Race Track with a foolproof system, involving higher mathematics, that he uses to almost break the track. This draws attention to him, by not only the counterfeiters and race-track officials, but also by Torchy, who's at the track tracking down McBride.

Torchy, Gahangen, and a German Shepard named Blitzen from a local pet store is hold captive by the counterfeit ring as hostage. Both Torchy and Gahagan is tied up to a nitroglycerin bomb, set to go off at any moment. Blitzen escaped the counterfeit ring, and lead McBride together with a squad of police and Gilbert to the gang's hiding place. Gilbert, not wanting to be at the place where the bomb is set to go off, is forced not only to reveal his true identity to McBride, but also where the bomb is and when it's about to detonate. Torchy and Gahagan are rescued by McBride, and Gilbert is arrested.

Cast

Torchy Blane series

References

  1. ↑ "Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)". New York Time. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Torchy Gets Her Man". Moviefone. Retrieved February 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Bubbeo, Daniel. The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, with Filmographies for Each. McFarland & Company. p. 79. ISBN 0786411376.

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