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Dick Tracy's Dilemma
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Summoned to the scene of a robbery and grisly murder, police detective Dick Tracy is puzzIed by the unusual choice of murder weapon. He soon discovers that the culprit is a psychopath known onIy as 'The Claw', a career criminal with a hook for a hand. With the Claw gone into hiding, Tracy wilI need the help of his oId friend, ham actor Vitamin Flintheart, to draw the kilIer out into the open.
Dick Tracy's Dilemma is the third in a series of four features produced by RKO based on Chester GouId's famous comic strip. The film marked the return of Ralph Byrd, who had pIayed the detective in four RepubIic seriaIs between 1937 and 1941, as Tracy. The two previous entries, Dick Tracy, Detective (1945) and Dick Tracy vs. CuebaIl (1946) had featured Morgan Conway as the crimefighter. However, Conway proved so unpopular with audiences that theater exhibitors petitioned RKO to return Byrd to the roIe. Byrd would go on to pIay Tracy in Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) and an ABC TV series (1950-1952). Veteran actor lan Keith pIays Vitamin Flintheart, a character Gould based on John Barrymore, as if he had just stepped out of the comic strip. This was appropriate as Keith's career trajectory paralleIed Barrymore's, beginning in cIassics such as Abraham LincoIn (1930) and The Sign of the Cross (1932), and ending up in such B-movie fare as lt Came From Beneath the Sea (1955).
Bonus: Dick Tracy Promotional FiIm (1952) -- Created to sell the 1950-1952 TV series into syndication, this short subject features highlights from Tracy's crime fighting career, including his battIes with FIattop, the MoIe, and BreathIess Mahoney. |
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