William A. BerkeDick Tracy Detective (1945)

Dick must stop the mysterious killings of various people with no obvious connection.

This item is part of the collection: Feature Films

Director: William A. Berke
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, black and white
Keywords: Dick Tracy; Crime; Detective

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: jimelena - - April 19, 2006
Subject: It's in the title

This title tells you everything you want to know about the movie.
He's Dick Tracy and he's a detective.
The rest are sub plots.
There's a woman, there's a boy, there's a crime, and that's about it. Oh yeah, and a comic relief, and that's redundant, the whole movie is a comedy in one way or another.
But it's all for fun, so watch and enjoy.

Reviewer: gentle ben - - February 4, 2006
Subject: Better than average B-Movie

This Dick Tracy movie is head and shoulders above the Dick Tracy serial in the archives. While not a great movie, the plot is interesting, the acting better than average, the characters in line with the Dick Tracy milieu and the dialog well written.

The actor playing Dick Tracy, Morgan Conway, sounds just a bit like Humphry Bogart (at least in this film). Anne Jeffreys, who plays Dick Tracy's girlfriend, later played Marion Kerby, one of the two ghosts in the TV series, Topper. Mike Mazurki, who plays Splitface, is a character actor who plays a heavy in scores of B-movies.

Reviewer: billbarstad - - December 28, 2005
Subject: Entertaining

Quite good for the Dick Tracy series. Characterizations are strong; Tracy is hard-boiled.

I watched the mpeg4. Crackle in the sound track throughout, but not too annoying.