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Dick Tracy (1937)
Directed by Ray Taylor, Alan James
“ACE G-MAN --- WAGING A ONE-MAN WAR ON CRIME!”
Crime, Action, Comedy, Thriller · 4h 50m
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
Cast
Ralph Byrd
Dick Tracy
Kay Hughes
Gwen Andrews
Smiley Burnette
Mike McGurk
L
Lee Van Atta
Junior
John Picorri
Moloch
Carleton Young
Gordon Tracy, after
F
Fred Hamilton
Steve Lockwood
Francis X. Bushman
Chief Clive Anderson
John Dilson
Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]
R
Richard Beach
Gordon Tracy, before [Chs. 1, 12]
Byron Foulger
Korvitch [Chs. 1, 12]
R
Roscoe Gerald
Power Co. Watchman-Thug (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Ray Taylor, Alan James
- Screenplay
- Barry Shipman, Winston Miller
- Director of Photography
- William Nobles, Edgar Lyons
- Original Music Composer
- Alberto Colombo
- Editor
- Helene Turner, Edward Todd, William Witney
- Producer
- Nat Levine
Details
- Release date
- 1937-02-20
- Runtime
- 4h 50m
- Genres
- Crime, Action, Comedy, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Republic Pictures