Dick Tracy (1945)

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Police detective Dick Tracy must identify and apprehend a serial killer known as Splitface.

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18 September 2005 | blanche-2
6
| pleasant programmer
I suppose everyone has his or her own idea of what Dick Tracy should look like out of his cartoon realm. It seems from reading some of the comments that Morgan Conway was no one's idea. I guess in my head I've always thought of John Larkin, the original Mike Carr on "Edge of Night" to be a good person for Tracy. Conway seems more of a character actor and less of a lead than I imagine Tracy. He has a pleasant smile, though.

Anne Jeffreys, now at 80+ and absolutely gorgeous to this day, was asked about the Dick Tracy series a few years ago, and she denied ever making any Dick Tracy movies. It wasn't that she disdained them, but they were turned out so quickly, she had no recollection of doing them.

This was a decent programmer but not much came through as far as personalities, except perhaps from Mike Mazurki as Splitface. The film moves along well. The subplot with Jane Greer seemed totally superfluous and never was resolved. Oh, well, soon enough, she would be on to better things.

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Did You Know?

Trivia

RKO paid Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould $10,000 for the film rights to the character, the equivalent of $140,000 in 2018.

Quotes

Dick Tracy: Who are you and what are you doing up here?
Prof. Linwood J. Starling: I? Oh! I am Professor Linwood J. Starling, astrologist, doctor of the occult sciences.
Dick Tracy: How long have you been up here?
Prof. Linwood J. Starling: Time and space are beyond human conception.
Dick Tracy: Cut out the double talk, I'm from police ...
Prof. Linwood J. Starling: ...

Goofs

Nightclub owner Steve Owens (Morgan Wallace) disappears half way through the film and his character's relationship to the story is never adequately explained; his daughter, Judith Owens (Jane Greer) is also abandoned without any explanation of her involvement in the proceedings.

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Genres

Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Details

Release Date:

20 December 1945

Language

English

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

USA

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