Newspaper reporter "Torchy" Blaine and police detective Steve McBride are on the trail of an Oriental gang that has committed three murders. Also on hand is a fabricated Scotland Yard operative who is a phony, and has two others assisting him in an effort to throw the police department off the trail; they are trying to exhort $250,000 from a young rich man who is trying to marry a senator's daughter. A submarine gets involved.
Directed byWilliam Beaudine
Written byFrederick Nebel (characters), Murray Leinster (original story "The Purple Hieroglyph"), George Bricker (screenplay)
CountryUSA
Runtime58 min
On screen
Glenda Farrell
Barton MacLane
Tom Kennedy
Henry O'Neill