Smart blonde. Fly-away baby. Adventurous blonde. Blondes at work. Torchy Blane in Panama. Torchy gets her man. Torchy Blane in Chinatown. Torchy runs for mayor. Torchy Blane ... playing with dynamite.
Notes:
Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Lola Lane, Jane Wyman, Tom Kennedy, Allen Jenkins. Videodisc release of nine motion pictures produced between 1936 and 1939. Based on characters in a series of stories by Frederick Nebel.
Contents:
Disc 5. Torchy Blane ... playing with dynamite / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; directed by Noel Smith ; screenplay by Earle Snell and Charles Belden ; from an original story by Scott Littleton. Fly-away baby : the adventures of Torchy Blane / directed by Frank McDonald ; screenplay by Kenneth Gamet and Don Ryan ; from a story by Dorothy Kilgallen. -- Disc 2. Adventurous blonde / directed by Frank McDonald ; original screenplay by Robertson White and David Diamond. Blondes at work ; directed by Frank McDonald ; original screenplay by Albert DeMond. -- Disc 3. Torchy Blane in Panama / a First National picture ; directed by William Clemens ; screenplay by George Bricker ; from the story by Anthony Coldeway. Torchy gets her man / directed by William Beaudine ; original screenplay by Albert DeMond. -- Disc 4. Torchy Blane in Chinatown / a First National picture ; directed by William Beaudine ; screenplay by George Bricker ; original story by Murray Leinster and Will Jenkins [pseud. of Murray Leinster]. Torchy runs for mayor / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; a First National picture ; directed by Ray McCarey ; original screenplay by Earle Snell ; from an idea by Irving Rubine. -- Disc 5. Torchy Blane ... playing with dynamite / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; directed by Noel Smith ; screenplay by Earle Snell and Charles Belden ; from an original story by Scott Littleton.
Summary:
"Torchy Blane is a fast-talking newspaper reporter of the 1930s. She often becomes involved in police investigations, eventually leading to the capture of criminals. As her fiance, Steve Macbride, is usually involved in these investigations, he often comes under suspicion of favoritism."--Wikipedia entry for Torchy McBlane.
Series:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group archive collection
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