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The Torchy Blane films were a series nine B-movie programmers produced by Warner Brothers between 1937 and 1939. Originally based on the Kennedy and MacBride detective stories of pulp fiction writer Frederick Nebel, the Kennedy character was changed from a hard-drinking man to a fast-talking woman and given the Hollywood polish. And thus Torchy was born. The films were short, fun mysteries ...
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll. Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939) directed by Noel M. Smith • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
Glenda Farrell played Torchy Blane for the first time in Warner Brothers' Smart Blonde (1937) but she had stamped the template for the hardboiled female reporter four years earlier as the salty heroine of Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), directed by Michael Curtiz. Scouted from Broadway, the Oklahoma native made an impression in Hollywood just after the transition to sound films with her ...
Torchy Plays With Dynamite. 1939. 0 hr 59 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. Torchy Blane, girl reporter (Jane Wyman), goes to jail to establish a lead to a bank robber. Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy ...
A spunky reporter befriends a gangster's girlfriend. In a weird twist, the two Torchy Blane films I have seen have been the two which featured a replacement Torchy: Jane Wyman in this one, and Lola Lane in TORCHY BLANE IN PANAMA, each time subbing for Glenda Farrell as the notorious perky reporter. (Farrell played the part in the seven other pics in the series.) I like this type of breezy ...
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll. Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939) directed by Noel M. Smith • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
Playing with Dynamite. Jane Wyman, who plays Torchy in this film, appeared as the hat check girl in the first Torchy Blane feature. Torchy's real first name is mentioned. It's Helen. Gahagan's real first name is mentioned. It's Jay. The last of nine "Torchy Blane" films made by Warner Brothers between 1937 and 1939.
