Torchy Blane in Chinatown
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| Directed by | William Beaudine |
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Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner |
| Written by | Frederick Nebel Murray Leinster |
| Screenplay by | George Bricker |
| Starring |
Glenda Farrell Barton MacLane |
| Music by | Howard Jackson |
| Cinematography | Warren Lynch |
| Edited by | Frederick Richards |
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58 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Torchy Blane in Chinatown is a 1939 American crime mystery film directed by William Beaudine. The film stars Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane. It was released on February 4, 1939. This is the seventh film in the "Torchy Blane" movie series by Warner Bros. and is followed by Torchy Runs for Mayor. The rivalry between newspaper reporter Torchy Blane and her boyfriend, Lieutenant Steve McBride, escalates as the two investigate a death threat involving priceless jade tablets.
On behalf of Senator Baldwin (Henry O'Neill) the owner of the world's largest Chinese jade collection, detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) investigate a death threat involving the priceless jade tablets that were brought to the United States by three adventurers, who is now on the hit list of an oriental gang. A note written in Chinese warns the impending doom at midnight unless a ransom is paid for the valuable jades, which have been stolen. Steve is put on the case to protect the people who were involved in smuggling the jades into the country.
That night, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) joins Steve at the Adventurers club where he and his assistant, Gahagan (Tom Kennedy) are guarding the threatened victims, Fitzhugh, Mr. Mansfield (James Stephenson) and Captain Condon (Patric Knowles). Once midnight is passed, they leave, but Fitzhugh is machine-gunned in his car and killed. A note found in the car warns that Mansfield will be the next to die. He is later found dead after smoking a poisoned cigarette, and his body vanishes mysteriously before the coroner arrives at the crime scene.
Senator Baldwin's daughter Janet Baldwin and her fiancé Dick Staunton, is ordered by the mysterious killer to deliver the $250,000 ransom to the last buoy in the New York city harbor. Torchy discovered that Fitzhugh's fingerprints and those of the body in the morgue do not match. She joins Steve in a US Navy submarine as Dick rides out to pay the ransom. At the appointed place, Torchy and Steve surface in the submarine, just in time to save Dick and prove that the murders were all part of an elaborate plot by Fitzhugh, Mansfield, and Condon to extort money from Senator Baldwin.
Warner Archive released a boxed set DVD collection featuring all nine Torchy Blane films on March 29, 2011.
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