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Dick Tracy - RKO Classic Collection (Dick Tracy, Detective / Dick Tracy vs. Cueball / Dick Tracy's Dilemma / Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome) (1945)
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| Starring: | Morgan Conway, Ralph Byrd, Boris Karloff, Anne Gwynne, Anne Jeffreys, Lyle Latell, Rita Corday, Ian Keith, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, Joseph Crehan, Edward Ashley, June Clayworth, Tom Keene |
| Director: | Gordon Douglas, John Rawlins, William A. Berke |
| Genre: | Action & Adventure, Crime, Mystery/Thriller, Detectives |
| Year: | 1945 |
| Studio: | Vci Video |
| Length: | 248 minutes |
| Released: | June 24, 2008 |
| Rating: | NR |
| Format: | DVD |
| Misc: | NTSC, Special Edition, Black & White |
| Language: | English(Original Language) |
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SYNOPSIS: Four Dick Tracy Features on two DVDs!
The comic-strip crimefighter Dick Tracy, created by Chester Gould, was part of the Saturday matinee serials, starring Ralph Byrd. In 1945, RKO revived the Tracy series, and Morgan Conway was chosen to portray Tracy in a pair of feature films: Dick Tracy and Dick Tracy vs. Cueball. RKO's earliest publicity photos posed Conway in profile, hoping to imitate Gould's square-jawed caricatures. Although Conway’s’ screen Tracy didn't resemble the print Tracy in the flesh, Conway's dramatic interpretation was faithful; he gave the role a humble, businesslike quality while keeping with police procedure. Morgan Conway is considered by many to be the best on screen Dick Tracy. Although Conway's Tracy was praised by critics as the closest to Gould's original concept, the public seemed to prefer Byrd, who returned in the role for the final two RKO features. To them, Ralph Byrd was Dick Tracy. RKO accepted this and hired Byrd to finish the series.
Max Allan Collins -- who took over the writing of the Tracy strip from Chester Gould, and went on to create Road to Perdition -- provides informative on-screen introductions to each film, exclusive to this VCI release.
DISC 1:
Dick Tracy, Detective (1945, 62 min.)
Dick is faced with a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces. Suspects abound but Tracy, getting a clue that there will be fifteen murders in all, must find the common thread among the victims before more are killed.
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946, 62 min.)
Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. 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.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Dick Tracy Returns - Chapter 1
- Trailers - The Master Key, The Vigilante
- Photo Gallery
DISC 2:
Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947, 60 min.)
Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947, 66 min.)
A gang of criminals, which includes 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 paralyzes anyone who breathes it. 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 realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.
BONUS FEATURES:
- Dick Tracy G-men - Chapter 1
- Trailers - FBI Girl, Dick Tracy's G-men (Feature)
- Photo Gallery
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