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Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite is a 1939 American mystery film directed by Noel M. Smith, written by Earle Snell and Charles Belden, and starring Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, and Tom Kennedy. It was released on August 12, 1939. It is the final film in a series of nine Torchy Blane movies by Warner Bros.
Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite: Directed by Noel M. Smith. With Jane Wyman, Allen Jenkins, Tom Kennedy, Sheila Bromley. Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
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- Action, Comedy, Mystery
- Noel M. Smith
- 1939-08-12
Synopsis. Reporter Torchy Blane is covering a bank robbery, one of a series committed by Denver Eddie. Returning to the newspaper, Torchy is stopped by a policeman for speeding and because she does not have her driver's license with her, he takes her to court where she is present for the sentencing of "Jackie" McGuire, a woman accused of ...
- Noel Smith, Frank Heath, Harry Seymour
- Jane Wyman
Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite is one of two films in the series starring actors other than Glenda Farrell as Torchy and Barton MacLane as Steve. The fifth Torchy Blane movie, Torchy Blane in Panama (1938), features Lola Lane and Paul Kelly in the leading roles.
Playing with Dynamite (1939). Public reaction was tepid. A leftover Torchy Blane script was adapted into a 1939 film Private Detective, also starring Jane Wyman, but not as the Torchy character. The only actor to appear in all nine Torchy Blane films was Tom Kennedy as Gahagan, McBride's slow-witted cop sidekick given to bursts of poetry.
Fast-talking Torchy Blane (Jane Wyman) is a fearless news reporter, always on the hunt for the next big story. So, when she crosses paths with gangster moll Jackie Maguire (Sheila Bromley) at...
- Crime, Drama
Playing with Dynamite. Summaries. Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll. While in traffic court, Torchy bumps into Jackie Maguire, girlfriend of the notorious hoodlum Denver Eddie, who is sentenced to jail for shoplifting.
