Dick Tracy
ACE G-MAN --- WAGING A ONE-MAN WAR ON CRIME!
1937 · 4h 50m · APPROVED
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Alan James
,
Ray Taylor
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Alan James Director
- Ray Taylor Director
- 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]
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