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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
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26 September 1947 (USA) moreTagline:
Horror Man Traps Super-Sleuth !Plot:
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
'No useless killings!' moreUS TV Schedule:
| Sat. July 18 | 3:45 PM | TCM |
Cast
(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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Boris Karloff as Gruesome adds a genuine feeling of menace to this addition of Dick Tracy potboilers. I liked the way his character refers to a henchman killing a cop as a 'useless killing'. Unlike the 'worthwhile killings' he employs when he decides to get rid of the people who stand in his way. A superb example of twisted criminal logic!
Once again, the character of Dick Tracy is dull and goes through the motions but gets his man in the end anyway. A disappointment is that Gruesome doesn't meet his fate in a more exciting and...well...gruesome fashion in keeping with the style of this series of films. Especially as Gruesome cold bloodliy shoots and kills a woman to stop her squealing to the cops! For just over a hour, these short films deliver some fast entertainment, there's flaws in the plots, the budgets are low but they are fun. And that's fair enough for me.