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)
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Watch Harry the Horse Wrestle Bone Crusher
Jane Wyman and Allen Jenkins team up as the reporter/detective pair in their first but also the series final episode. Wyman looks great but simply does not have the wisecracking hard-boiled presence of the annoying Glenda Farrell. Jenkins is fair but Barton MacLane is better.
As in the rest of the series and many other films of this type, the amateur is a necessary component of bringing the criminal to justice. Torchy goes undercover in jail and on the lam in order to meet up with the notorious Denver Eddie. By the end of the movie she is in the arms of fiancé Detective Lieutenant Steve McBride.
Tom Kennedy steals most of the movie by playing a former Navy wrester turned policeman. In reality Tom was a boxer and he carries off his match as Harry the Horse with Bone Crusher (played by Tiny Roebuck in his final on-screen performance) with good comedic style. If you have ever wondered what the protagonists in a wrestling match say to each other while they are otherwise locked into their imposing holds, watch this movie.
As in the rest of the series and many other films of this type, the amateur is a necessary component of bringing the criminal to justice. Torchy goes undercover in jail and on the lam in order to meet up with the notorious Denver Eddie. By the end of the movie she is in the arms of fiancé Detective Lieutenant Steve McBride.
Tom Kennedy steals most of the movie by playing a former Navy wrester turned policeman. In reality Tom was a boxer and he carries off his match as Harry the Horse with Bone Crusher (played by Tiny Roebuck in his final on-screen performance) with good comedic style. If you have ever wondered what the protagonists in a wrestling match say to each other while they are otherwise locked into their imposing holds, watch this movie.
- Jim Tritten
- Jul 2, 2004
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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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