Dick Tracy Returns

Name: Dick Tracy Returns
Genre: Drama
Released: 1938-08-20
Duration: 4 h 20 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: Ralph Byrd, Lynne Roberts, Charles Middleton

1938
Approved
4h 20m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

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Drama

Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

446

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Ralph Byrd and Charles Middleton in Dick Tracy Returns (1938)

Ralph Byrd, Ned Glass, Charles Middleton, and Jack Roberts in Dick Tracy Returns (1938)

Jerry Tucker in Dick Tracy Returns (1938)

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Trivia
Chapter Titles: 1. The Sky Wreckers 2. The Runway Of Death 3. Handcuffed To Doom 4. Four Seconds To Live 5. Death In The Air 6. Stolen Secrets 7. Tower Of Death 8. Cargo Of Destruction 9. The Clock Of Doom 10. High Voltage 11. The Kidnapped Witness 12. The Runaway Torpedo 13. Passengers To Doom 14. In The Hands Of The Enemy 15. G-Men's Dragnet

Goofs
Max Allan Collins, in the opening introduction, states that Junior was the only character carried over from 'Dick Tracy' 1937. He was wrong. Gwen Andews, Mike McGurk and Steve Lockwood were present also.

Connections
Featured in Dick Tracy Special (2010)

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Flawed, but fun, an improvement over the original.

Dick Tracy aims to bring down a criminal family unit, headed up by the merciless Pa Stark.

Having ....endured the previous movie, I have put off watching this one for about five years I guess, so today was the day I took the cellophane off the dvd.

You could easily dismiss this film as nonsensical and cheap, but in my review I've tried to partly consider what audiences way back in 1938 would have thought, and what the alternatives would have been.

It's very raw, but there are lots of action sequences, and it's a good old fashioned story of the good guys taking on the baddies.

Some of the dialogue has to be heard to be believed, some of it will have you hiding behind a cushion.

At this early stage, I don't think I could suggest that Ralph Byrd is my idea of Dick Tracy, but I'm not sure if that's down to the actor, or the script, he'd of course play the character for a long time.

6/10.

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