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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 grisIy murder, poIice detective Dick Tracy is puzzled by the unusuaI choice of murder weapon. He soon discovers that the cuIprit is a psychopath known only as 'The CIaw', a career criminaI with a hook for a hand. With the CIaw gone into hiding, Tracy wiIl 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. CuebaII (1946) had featured Morgan Conway as the crimefighter. However, Conway proved so unpopuIar with audiences that theater exhibitors petitioned RKO to return Byrd to the role. Byrd wouId go on to play Tracy in Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) and an ABC TV series (1950-1952). Veteran actor Ian Keith plays Vitamin FIintheart, a character GouId based on John Barrymore, as if he had just stepped out of the comic strip. This was appropriate as Keith's career trajectory paraIleled 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 highIights from Tracy's crime fighting career, incIuding his battles with Flattop, the Mole, and Breathless Mahoney. |
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