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Torchy Runs for Mayor is a 1939 American drama-comedy film directed by Ray McCarey. It is the eighth film in the Torchy Blane film series by Warner Bros., and the last film starring Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane as Torchy Blane and Steve McBride. It was released on May 13, 1939. The film is followed by Torchy Blane...
Torchy Runs for Mayor: Directed by Ray McCarey. With Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy, John Miljan. Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.
- (427)
- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Ray McCarey
- 1939-05-13
Synopsis. Reporter Torchy Blane repeatedly accuses Mayor Saunders of being in league with Dr. Dolan, who controls the city through graft. The articles worry policeman Steve McBride, Torchy's fiancé, because he believes that they place her in danger.
Torchy Blane is investigating the political career of mayor Dr. Dolan, who has installed a corrupt leadership. She demands a new election, and after the opposition's candidate is murdered, she decides to run for mayor.
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- Glenda Farrell
- Ray Mccarey
- Warner Bros Pictures
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In the second-to-last Torchy Blane adventure, and the last to star Glenda Farrell, Torchy is at her most ethically dubious in her methods — bugging offices, breaking & entering, even getting a man killed when he runs a story in his newspaper that none of the others will touch.
