This film begins with Torchy and her fiancé, Lt. McBride, having an argument. It seems he is once again getting a lot of pressure from his boss to stop giving Torchy inside information about the cases he's working on at the time. That's because she's a reporter and the reporters from other papers are complaining about this. This has been an ongoing complaint in this detective series. Tired of constantly hearing these complaints, McBride bans Torchy from coming on any more cases. This doesn't stop her, as she uses every trick she can to spy on him! When the murder of a department store owner occurs, she manages to find out before any of the other reporters. So it seems that even without McBride's help, she still gets the scoop again and again.
This film starts off well. However, it sure ended poorly. After spending much of the film to convict a guy of murder, the trial is shown in depth. So far so good. However, after all this and the guy being found guilty, in the last three minutes, as Torchy is sitting in jail (it's a long story), McBride shows up and announces that the real killer just confessed! So, they didn't show the confession but just tacked it on at the end! How cheesy. This slapped on ending sure helped make this movie end with a whimper, not much of a bang--making it a rather poor addition to the series.
By the way, in one scene, Lt. McBride showed a handkerchief to a lady at a cosmetics counter so she could identify the type and brand of lipstick. The blonde lady barely even looked at it and went on and on about the exact lipstick it was. This was hard to believe, but the director should have at least told her to spend more than .003 of a second examining it!
This film starts off well. However, it sure ended poorly. After spending much of the film to convict a guy of murder, the trial is shown in depth. So far so good. However, after all this and the guy being found guilty, in the last three minutes, as Torchy is sitting in jail (it's a long story), McBride shows up and announces that the real killer just confessed! So, they didn't show the confession but just tacked it on at the end! How cheesy. This slapped on ending sure helped make this movie end with a whimper, not much of a bang--making it a rather poor addition to the series.
By the way, in one scene, Lt. McBride showed a handkerchief to a lady at a cosmetics counter so she could identify the type and brand of lipstick. The blonde lady barely even looked at it and went on and on about the exact lipstick it was. This was hard to believe, but the director should have at least told her to spend more than .003 of a second examining it!