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Dick Tracy (aka Dick Tracy, Detective)

USA

Year: 1945

B&W

Playing Time: 61 minutes



Director:

William A. Berke



Production Company:

RKO Radio Pictures Inc



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037642/




Cast:

Morgan Conway - Dick Tracy

Anne Jeffreys - Tess Trueheart

Mike Mazurki - Splitface

Jane Greer - Jane Owens

Lyle Latell - Pat Patton

Joseph Crehan - Chief Brandon

Mickey Kuhn - Junior

Trevor Bardette - Prof. Linwood J. Starling

Morgan Wallace - Steve Owens

Milton Parsons - Deathridge the Undertaker

William Halligan - Mayor



There are 4 movies with "Dick Tracy":

Dick Tracy aka Dick Tracy, Detective (1945, this one)

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)

Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)



Based on the comic strip:

"Dick Tracy" created by Chester Gould in 1931



Review:

"This Dick Tracy movie is head and shoulders above the Dick Tracy serial in the archives. While not a great movie, the plot is interesting, the acting better than average, the characters in line with the Dick Tracy milieu and the dialog well written.

The actor playing Dick Tracy, Morgan Conway, sounds just a bit like Humphry Bogart (at least in this film). Anne Jeffreys, who plays Dick Tracy's girlfriend, later played Marion Kerby, one of the two ghosts in the TV series, Topper. Mike Mazurki, who plays Splitface, is a character actor who plays a heavy in scores of B-movies."



Plot:

A city is gripped with fear as a mad slasher known only as "Splitface" terrorizes its inhabitants and leaves a trail of murders. But Dick Tracy senses a common link and unravels a sinister web of extortion and revenge.