Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

290 mins | Crime, Comedy, Action, Thriller | Feb. 20, 1937

Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.

Dick Tracy

290 mins | Crime, Comedy, Action, Thriller | Feb. 20, 1937

Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Republic Pictures
Original title Dick Tracy
Directors Alan James, Ray Taylor
Writers George Morgan, Barry Shipman, Morgan Cox, Winston Miller

Cast

Ralph Byrd

as Dick Tracy

Kay Hughes

as Gwen Andrews

Smiley Burnette

as Mike McGurk

Lee Van Atta

as Junior

John Picorri

as Moloch

Carleton Young

as Gordon Tracy, after

Fred Hamilton

as Steve Lockwood

Francis X. Bushman

as Chief Clive Anderson

John Dilson

as Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]

Richard Beach

as Gordon Tracy, before [Chs. 1, 12]

Byron Foulger

as Korvitch [Chs. 1, 12]