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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) -- Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.

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Director:
John Rawlins
Writers:
Chester Gould (comic strip characters)
William Graffis (story) ...
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Release Date:
26 September 1947 (USA) more
Tagline:
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Plot:
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas. full summary | add synopsis
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DVD Releases: Wizard of Box Sets
 (From Dread Central. 18 August 2008, 1:13 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Get that cat out of here! more (26 total)

Cast

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Boris Karloff ... Gruesome
Ralph Byrd ... Dick Tracy
Anne Gwynne ... Tess Truehart
Edward Ashley ... Dr. Lee Thal
June Clayworth ... Dr. I.M. Learned (Irma), Prof. Tomic's Assistant
Lyle Latell ... Pat Patton, Plainclothesman
Tony Barrett ... 'Melody' Fiske
Skelton Knaggs ... X-Ray
James Nolan ... Dan Sterne, Newspaper Reporter (as Jim Nolan)
Joseph Crehan ... Chief Brandon
Milton Parsons ... Dr. A. Tomic, State U. Physicist
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ernie Adams ... Bartender at Hangman's Knot (uncredited)
Phil Arnold ... Sneezing Bank Customer (uncredited)
Lex Barker ... City Hospital Driver (uncredited)
Eddie Borden ... Bank customer (uncredited)

Robert Bray ... Sarge (Cop at Tracy's) (uncredited)
Robert Clarke ... Fred, police analyst (uncredited)
George Cooper ... Stone, bank teller (uncredited)
Suzi Crandall ... Blonde Customer (uncredited)
William Gould ... 'Pop', hospital Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Ben Hall ... Luke - Police Stooge (uncredited)
Harry Harvey ... Humphrey, Bank guard (uncredited)
Tom Keene ... Dr. Frankey (uncredited)
George Lloyd ... Manager of the 'Hangmans Knot' (uncredited)
Robert Malcolm ... Dr. Carver (police doctor) (uncredited)
Sean McClory ... Officer Carney (uncredited)
Lew Meehan ... Police Driver in montage (uncredited)
Bruce Mitchell ... Police Sgt. in montage (uncredited)
Lee Phelps ... Detective in Car (uncredited)
Lorin Raker ... Insolvent Bank Customer (uncredited)
Bert Roach ... Crandall, a bank customer (uncredited)
Jason Robards Sr. ... Mr. Fax, 1st National Bank V.P. (uncredited)
Harry Strang ... Tim, Tracy's Hospital Guard (uncredited)
Tex Swan ... Policeman (uncredited)
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Directed by
John Rawlins 
 
Writing credits
Chester Gould (comic strip characters)

William Graffis (story) (as William H. Graffis) &
Robert E. Kent (story)

Robertson White (screenplay) &
Eric Taylor (screenplay)

Produced by
Herman Schlom .... producer
 
Original Music by
Paul Sawtell 
 
Cinematography by
Frank Redman 
 
Film Editing by
Elmo Williams 
 
Art Direction by
Albert S. D'Agostino 
Walter E. Keller 
 
Set Decoration by
James Altwies  (as James Altweis)
Darrell Silvera 
 
Makeup Department
Gordon Bau .... makeup supervisor
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
James Lane .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Terry Kellum .... sound technician
Jean L. Speak .... sound technician
 
Special Effects by
Russell A. Cully .... special effects
 
Music Department
C. Bakaleinikoff .... musical director
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dick Tracy Meets Karloff
Dick Tracy's Amazing Adventure (UK)
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Runtime:
65 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1990) | USA:Approved (PCA #12377)

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Pat Patton: I'm sitting here, see, writing out this report on the stiff. All of a sudden, blackout! Something hit me here: a crowbar or a small bulldozer. more
Movie Connections:
Follows Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) more

FAQ

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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Get that cat out of here!, 20 July 2005
8/10
Author: Tom Willett (yonhope) from Central Midwest, USA

What is that cat doing in the bank, again?

Lex Barker, soon to become Tarzan is here in an ambulance driver role. He looks so good everyone forgets the plot. Meanwhile Gruesome gets away.

The chatty bank guard is good.

Boris Karloff wanted to be gruesomer than usual so he decided to copy Moe's hairstyle from the Three Stooges. It works. Karloff is excellent but you wouldn't want Gruesome for a piano bar date. The piano player/mobster never plays piano. They should have had Liberace in that role. It really would have worked.

The newspaper reporter could have tried for a spin-off.

I see this movie all the time at the 99 Cent Store. It is a great bargain. It is a good print of the film. The car chases are much better than today's chases. In the forties if a policeman saw a car driving away from somewhere, he could just shoot at it or shoot out the tires so it would crash into a taxidermy shop. Today they don't shoot at big crowds of people. Everyone in this movie has a gun.

All the sets are fun to imagine as being real. The hospital, the chemist's lab, the conveyor belt. The cars were beautiful back in the '30s and '40s. There is a lot to enjoy here. I saw this when I was a kid of about 8. It was great then, it is fun today.

Now get that cat out of the bank.

Tom Willett

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