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Dick Tracy

Release Date:February 20, 1937

Running Time:290 min

Genres:Action, Comedy, Thriller, Crime

Directors

Cast

Ralph Byrd Kay Hughes Smiley Burnette Lee Van Atta John Picorri Carleton Young Fred Hamilton Francis X. Bushman John Dilson Richard Beach Byron Foulger Roscoe Gerald

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using his Flying wing and sound weapon to destroy the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and stealing an experimental "Speed Plane", the Spider captures Dick Tracy's brother, Gordon. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.

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