Dick Tracy Collection DVD 2 Disc Set / Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Dilemma - Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome / Starring: Boris Karloff / Roan AED-2012

UPC 785604201229

MADE IN USA

REGION 1 NTSC DVD

AUDIO: English MONO

TOTAL RUNTIME: 71 MINUTES

English Summary:

Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931 in the Detroit Mirror, and it was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977, and various artists and writers have continued it. Dick Tracy has also been the hero in a number of films, including Dick Tracy in which Warren Beatty played the lead in 1990. Tom De Haven praised Gould's Dick Tracy as an "outrageously funny American Gothic", while Brian Walker described it as a "ghoulishly entertaining creation" which had "gripping stories filled with violence and pathos"

Dick Tracy (also known as Dick Tracy, Detective) is a 1945 American comic strip action film based on the Dick Tracy comic strip created by Chester Gould. The film is the first of four installment of the Dick Tracy film series, released by RKO Radio Pictures.

Cast

• Morgan Conway as Dick Tracy, the tough detective, who lets nothing stand in the way of justice.
• Anne Jeffreys as Tess Trueheart, Tracy's girlfriend, who often falls victim to her boyfriends workoholism.
• Mike Mazurki as Alexis "Splitface" Banning, a psychotic ex-con who seeks revenge. His weapon is a sharp surgical knife. He has a big disfiguring scar across his face.
• Jane Greer as Jane Owens, a suspect.
• Lyle Latell as Pat Patton, Tracy's bumbling assistant.
• Joseph Crehan as Chief Brandon, the reliable chief of police.
• Mickey Kuhn as Junior, Tracy's adopted son.
• Trevor Bardette as Prof. Linwood J. Starling, a strange medium, and also a suspect.
• Morgan Wallace as Steve Owens, a stern businessman.
• Milton Parsons as Deathridge the Undertaker, a mysterious, skeletal suspect.
• William Halligan as Mayor, the worried mayor of Chicago.
• Jason Robards Sr. as Motorist (uncredited)

2-DVD set of 4 feature films / DVD Set contents:

Dick Tracy, Detective (1945)
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)
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.

Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947)
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)
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.

Extras:
Interview With Dick Tracy Creator Chester Gould
Dick Tracy in B Flat, an Armed Forces Radio show starring Bing Crosby (as Tracy), Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore & Jimmy Durante
4 Radio Broadcasts