The Adventures Of Dick Tracy

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
(1947) A gang of criminals, including a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyses anyone who breathes it – Oh No! When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realises that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

Boris Karloff – Gruesome
Ralph Byrd - Dick Tracy
Anne Gwynne - Tess Truehart
Edward Ashley - Dr Lee Thal
June Clayworth - Dr I M Learned (Irma), Prof Tomic's Assistant
Tony Barrett - 'Melody' Fiske
Skelton Knaggs - X-Ray
Jim Nolan - Dan Sterne, Newspaper Reporter
Joseph Crehan - Chief Brandon
Milton Parsons - Dr A Tomic, State Physicist
Bert Roach – Crandall, a bank customer
Jason Robards Sr - Mr Fax, 1st National Bank VP
Phil Arnold - Sneezing Bank Customer
Suzi Crandall - Blonde Bank Customer

Directed: John Rawlins
Produced: Herman Schlom
Cinematography: Frank Redman
Editor: Elmo Williams

Dick Tracy Vs Cueball
(1946) A haul of expensive diamonds is stolen, but before the thief can pass them on he is strangled by an ex-con and all-round bad guy, Cueball. The arch villain then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. In an attempt to entrap Cueball, Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend, Tess, to act as a buyer for the gems. But his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal Cueball – Oh No!

Morgan Conway - Dick Tracy
Anne Jeffreys - Tess Trueheart, aka Blythe Belmonte
Lyle Latell - Pat Patton
Rita Corday - Mona Clyde, Sparkle's Secretary
Ian Keith - Vitamin Flintheart
Dick Wessel - Harry 'Cueball' Lake
Douglas Walton - Percival Priceless, Antique Store Owner
Esther Howard - Filthy Flora, Dripping Dagger Proprietor
Joseph Crehan - Chief Brandon
Byron Foulger - Simon Little, Sparkle's Diamond Cutter
Jimmy Crane - Junior Tracy
Milton Parsons – Higby, Clerk at Priceless
Skelton Knaggs – Rudolph, Little's Associate
Harry Cheshire - Jules Sparkle, Jeweller
Ralph Dunn - Cop at Pat's Car Wreck
Lee Frederick - Purser, SS 'Palomar'
William Newell - Piano Player
Max Wagner – Max, Dripping Dagger Bartender
Bill Wallace - Carlton Arms Doorman
Phil Warren - Coroner at Abbott's Autopsy

Directed: Gordon Douglas
Produced: Herman Schlom
Cinematography: George E Diskant
Editor: Philip Martin

Dick Tracy's Dilemma
(1947) Ralph Byrd returns to the character he had originated ten years earlier in the serial Dick Tracy. This time, Chester Gould's immortal comic strip hero is called in to handle a fur theft. The owner of Flawless Furs, Humphreys (Charles Marsh), has just signed on with the Honesty Insurance Company whose investigator, Cudd (Al Bridge), made him change the combination to the vault. The insurance policy, as the head of Honesty, Peter Premium (William B Davidson), explains, holds the company liable if the stolen furs haven't been recovered within 24 hours of the theft. The trail leads to Longshot Lily (Bernadene Hayes), a would-be fence who is promptly arrested. But when Tracy's snitch, Sightless (Jimmy Conlin), is found brutally murdered, the detective realises that he has more than a simple fur theft on his hands. With the help of master thespian Vitamin Flintheart (Ian Keith) and ever-present sidekick Pat Patton (Lyle Latell), Tracy follows a series of clues that lead him to a deserted junkyard and a fateful confrontation with fiendish killer "The Claw" (Jack Lambert).

Ralph Byrd - Dick Tracy
Lyle Latell - Pat Patton
Kay Christopher - Tess Trueheart
Jack Lambert - Steve 'The Claw' Michel
Ian Keith - Vitamin Flintheart
Bernadene Hayes - Longshot Lillie, the Fence
Jimmy Conlin – Sightless, the 'Blind' Beggar
William B Davidson - Peter Premium, VP Honesty Insurance
Tony Barrett - Sam, a henchman
Tom Keene - Pred, a henchman
Al Bridge - Mr Cudd, Honesty Insurance Investigator
Wade Crosby - Jigger, Blinking Skull Owner
William Gould - Bill, Police Morgue Technician
Harry Harvey - Officer Donovan
Tom London - Cop in Squad Car
Charles Marsh - Mr Humphries, Owner Collins Furs
Sean McClory - Officer Dillon, at robbery
Frank Mills - Sailor outside Blinking Skull
Jason Robards Sr - Hawks, Collins Furs’ Night Watchman
Harry Strang - Watchman in Alley
Elena Warren - Police Matron with Lillie

Directed: John Rawlins
Produced: Herman Schlom
Cinematography: Frank Redman
Editor: Marvin Coil

Format: 3 DVD boxset (Black & White)
Category:PG
Label: 3 DVD Boxsets