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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
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26 September 1947 (USA)
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Horror Man Traps Super-Sleuth !
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Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas. full summary | add synopsis
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(Complete credited cast) | 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 |
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65 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Pat Patton:
I tell you, if I didn't know better I'd swear we were doing business with Boris Karloff.
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Follows Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
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If we sometimes pay lip service to the notion that Boris Karloff was a fine actor, we are hard-pressed to offer examples - unless we mean his memorable gallery of monsters, mummies, mad scientists and assorted grotesques. In this unlikely film can be found one of the best performances of his career: that of a criminal, to be sure, but an ominous character who projects menace rather than horror. Karloff underplays the ruthless, single-minded social misfit whose manner is close enough to the norm to enable him to move among commonplace types without attracting undue attention, but is at the same time sufficiently glowering to intimidate even his henchmen. Among the latter is a perfectly contrasted ally in the person of Skelton Knaggs.
About the rest (apart from the tantalizing opening shot)...the less said, the better. But here is a B picture raised to the level of B+ by the solid work of a genuine professional.