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
Harry the Horse, Denver Eddie, and Steve the Flathead
The ninth and final Torchy Blane movie. This one stars Jane Wyman and Allen Jenkins, replacing Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane. Tom Kennedy stays on as Gahagan. The plot has Torchy going undercover to prison to get closer to a gangster's girlfriend. Wyman and Jenkins are fun but it's hard not to compare them to Farrell and MacLane, who perfected these roles and had much better chemistry. Ultimately, the individual pieces are greater than the whole here. I can't say I wasn't entertained. A good cast goes a long way. The highlights include Gahagan wrestling, Torchy stopping a prison fight, and characters with colorful names like Denver Eddie.
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- utgard14
- May 29, 2017
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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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