Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Joe King
- Mr. Guy Allister
- (as Joseph King)
Glen Cavender
- George - Globe Chop House Manager
- (uncredited)
Lane Chandler
- Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre
- (uncredited)
Don Downen
- Herald Copy Boy
- (uncredited)
Earl Dwire
- Globe Chop House Waiter
- (uncredited)
Eddie Graham
- Man at Bar with Sprague
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThough released six weeks after the Hindenburg disaster, which put a stop to all commercial dirigible flights, the film's climax occurs on a German dirigible and it contains stock footage of the Hindenburg (LZ-129).
- GoofsThe map of Torchy's flight "shows" it ending in Frankfurt, Germany, but it's actually flying to Berlin. Frankfurt, where Zeppelin flights took off from and arrived at, is much farther to the west.
- Quotes
Sgt. Orville Gahagan: [to a gaggle of reporters trying to get into the crime scene, including Torchy] Orders is no reporters, male or female - especially female!
- ConnectionsEdited from Flirtation Walk (1934)
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Working Class Tracy/Hepburn
Some of the Torchy Blane films are better than others and Fly Away Baby falls in the middle. Now you have to approach these series films with a more charitable perspective. Except for The Thin Man series all the series films back in the studio days were B picture programmers.
Fly Away Baby has reporter Torchy Blane hot on the trail of a jewel thief and murderer. She's got one suspect in her sights, but another comes as a bit of a surprise to her. Of course she's once again treading on the toes of her homicide cop boyfriend Barton MacLane as Lieutenant Steve McBride. MacLane is the original alpha male, but Glenda Farrell gives as good as she gets.
In fact even when the plots are sub par as this one really is, the Torchy Blane series always has that marvelous chemistry between Farrell and MacLane. Farrell in this series gets a chance to shine in a way she never did mostly getting parts that Joan Blondell rejected at Warner Brothers. These two are like a working class Tracy and Hepburn.
And Barton MacLane I'm told was a whole lot like Steve McBride other than a lot of four letter words peppered his daily conversation. Usually he's a bad guy in his early film days, but it's a treat to see him on the side of the law. Folks always seem to be a step ahead of him though whether it's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon or Torchy in this series.
Also there's Tom Kennedy who gives a droll performance as that thick as a brick assistant. Torchy and McBride are miles ahead of him.
Fly Away Baby has reporter Torchy Blane hot on the trail of a jewel thief and murderer. She's got one suspect in her sights, but another comes as a bit of a surprise to her. Of course she's once again treading on the toes of her homicide cop boyfriend Barton MacLane as Lieutenant Steve McBride. MacLane is the original alpha male, but Glenda Farrell gives as good as she gets.
In fact even when the plots are sub par as this one really is, the Torchy Blane series always has that marvelous chemistry between Farrell and MacLane. Farrell in this series gets a chance to shine in a way she never did mostly getting parts that Joan Blondell rejected at Warner Brothers. These two are like a working class Tracy and Hepburn.
And Barton MacLane I'm told was a whole lot like Steve McBride other than a lot of four letter words peppered his daily conversation. Usually he's a bad guy in his early film days, but it's a treat to see him on the side of the law. Folks always seem to be a step ahead of him though whether it's Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon or Torchy in this series.
Also there's Tom Kennedy who gives a droll performance as that thick as a brick assistant. Torchy and McBride are miles ahead of him.
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- Jan 5, 2013
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.37 : 1
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