Quotes
Police dispatcher:
Calling Car 15. Calling Car 15. Car 15!
Pat Patton:
Car 15, Patton speaking.
Police dispatcher:
Contact Dick Tracy at once. Have him go over to the Flawless Furs warehouse. Dillon reports some shenanigans - a busted fuse box at the garage.
Pat Patton:
Then tell him to call-tell him to call an electrician, not Dick Tracy
Police dispatcher:
Now come on, Pat! The night watchman has disappeared. It might be homicide.
Pat Patton:
Oh, that's different. I'll tell Dick Tracy right away!
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Soundtracks
"One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)"
(1943) Uncredited
Lyrics by 'Johnny Mercer (I)'
Music by 'Harold Arlen (I)'
Played without words on honky tonk piano at the Blinking Skull saloon
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Ralph Byrd returns as Dick Tracy in "Dick Tracy's Dilemma," a 1947 B movie with some noirish aspects. It's fast and well-directed.
Here Tracy is after a killer called The Claw, who has a hook for a hand. The plot involves stolen furs, murder, and insurance fraud.
If you thought Tess had nothing to do in the Morgan Conway movies, here Tess is practically an extra. The actress, Kay Christopher, was quite different from Anne Jeffreys. Christopher's Tess is sweet, where Jeffreys had more of a worldliness - it's the ingenue versus the leading lady. I never read the comics, so I don't know which one was more like Tess.
Kudos to Ian Keith, an actor I love, for his portrayal of Vitamin. He was a wonderful actor.
Directed with a brisk pace by John Rawlins, who adds several nice noir touches to this one, including one brilliant shot almost at the end of the film. I won't tell you what it is. You'll know it when you see it.