Torchy's Kitty Coup

"Torchy's Kitty Coup" is one of about a dozen Torchy films Ray Cooke made in the early 1930s. These films are about an office boy named 'Torchy' and in each episode he works hard to make good. The films I've seen have all been enjoyable but not exactly laugh riots either....and "Torchy's Kitty Coup" is below average for the series.

In this episode, the boss' wife is throwing a combination society party and cat shows but, oddly, she has no cats and expects her husband and his employees to supply them. So, much of the film shows Torchy and his immediate boss catching stray cats...as well as the big boss' hatred of the creatures.

After watching this film, I cannot recall any bit laughs at all...just a few small snickers. Watchable and at times enjoyable but also far from the best in the series.

Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with business deputes the job to Franklin Pangborn. Pangborn gets office boy Ray Cooke, and in no time at all, Breese has fleas.

This very amusing episode in the short comedy series about Torchy the Office Boy pulls in every cat-related pun and has songwriter Lee Zahler write a song about the subject.