Dick Tracy
1937 · 290 min
Crime · Action · Comedy · Thriller
★ 5.2Dick 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.
Crew
- Director Alan James
- Director Ray Taylor
- Screenplay Barry Shipman
- Screenplay Winston Miller
- Story Morgan Cox
- Story George Morgan
- Director of Photography Edgar Lyons
- Director of Photography William Nobles
Cast
Ralph Byrd
Dick Tracy
Kay Hughes
Gwen Andrews
Smiley Burnette
Mike McGurk
- L
Lee Van Atta
Junior
John Picorri
Moloch
Carleton Young
Gordon Tracy, after
- F
Fred Hamilton
Steve Lockwood
Francis X. Bushman
Chief Clive Anderson
John Dilson
Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]
- R
Richard Beach
Gordon Tracy, before [Chs. 1, 12]
Byron Foulger
Korvitch [Chs. 1, 12]
- R
Roscoe Gerald
Power Co. Watchman-Thug (uncredited)
Crew
- Director — Alan James
- Director — Ray Taylor
- Screenplay — Barry Shipman
- Screenplay — Winston Miller
- Story — Morgan Cox
- Story — George Morgan
- Director of Photography — Edgar Lyons
- Director of Photography — William Nobles
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