Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Manthast Absolutely amazing

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

utgard14 Fourth in the WB series of B movies about a fast-talking lady reporter named Torchy Blane and her cop boyfriend Steve McBride. In this one, as usual, the couple are separately investigating the same case, each trying to solve it before the other. Lightweight, enjoyable entry with the stars at their best. The scene stealer in this one is Tom Kennedy. He's a treat as the dimwitted cop Gahagan, who inadvertently helps Torchy stay one step ahead of the police. Carole Landis has a bit part. The rest of the cast includes John Ridgley, Rosella Towne, and Donald Briggs. One of my favorites in the series.

csteidler Reporter Torchy Blane is getting all the scoops, and Captain McTavish is mad. He thinks Torchy's fiancé, Lieutenant McBride, is giving her inside police information. The rival newspaper's editor "wants to know if we're running the police department for the taxpayers or for Torchy Blane." McBride ought to keep her in line!Glenda Farrell as Torchy is funnier than ever in this fast-moving farce with a bit of mystery tossed in. Torchy plays innocent when asked where she's getting her leads ("Oh, I don't know, those things just seem to come to me. I told you I was psychic") but has soon tracked a missing businessman to a hotel room where someone has been stabbed. Inside info or no, Torchy is consistently a step quicker than the cops. Barton McLane is a good sport as the generally bewildered Lieutenant McBride; the character is solid enough but essentially a straight man for Torchy and for police chauffeur Gahagan. Tom Kennedy is back as poetry-loving cop Gahagan and this time around he's keeping a diary—for "postererity," he says. He lets Torchy in on the secret diary; she asks if he has a good hiding place for it and encourages him to keep track of every little thing his boss McBride does….The plot has a few thin spots. Could you really trace a person that easily from a single smudge of lipstick on a handkerchief? The ending is rather abrupt as well, wrapping things up in an awful hurry. However, such issues hardly matter since plot here is always secondary to the goofy character interplay. The mystery, such as it is, involves a disappearance and murder but is little more than a backdrop for the comic story of Torchy and her sources.Not much suspense but lots of fun…. Farrell especially—hilarious and cute—appears to be having a ball.

gridoon2018 After increased pressure from Steve's superior, he and Torchy decide to part ways for a while, professionally speaking: each one will go on doing his job without the other one's help. When a department store owner is found stabbed to death, Steve is doubly puzzled: who killed him, and how does Torchy still manage to get all those inside scoops about the case? Not as fresh as the first two entries, but better than "The Adventurous Blonde", "Blondes At Work" is exceptionally slow-moving (it certainly feels longer than an hour), and not much of a mystery either, but it does have some standout moments of Torchy outwitting her opposition, and an ending that's both unexpected and sweet. ** out of 4.

MartinHafer 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!