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Dick Tracy Vs Cueball - Movie Review |
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Morgan Conway made his final screen appearance as Chester Gould's granite-jawed detective Dick Tracy in this RKO Radio programmer. This time around, Tracy's nemesis is bald headed jewel thief Cueball, played with blunt menace by Dick Wessel. Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the gems but his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal Cueball. Directed and written in the same larger-than-life style of the Gould original, Dick Tracy vs. Cueball features such colourful characters as Tracy's main squeeze Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffreys), pill-popping ham actor Vitamin Flintheart (Ian Keith), waterfront hag Filthy Flora (Esther Howard) and jewellery shop proprietor Jules Priceless (Douglas Walton). For reasons that defy explanation, this delightfully daffy concoction was spotlighted in the notorious volume The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
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Dick Tracy Vs Cueball - Cast & Crew |
| Directed by: Gordon Douglas Written by: Chester Gould, Dane Lussier, Luci Ward, Robert E Kent Starring: Anne Jeffreys, Dick Wessel, Ian Keith, Lyle Latell, Morgan Conway, Rita Corday Crew: George E Diskant, Herman Schlom, Philip Martin, Sid Rogell Copyright: Public Domain Format: Black + White Duration: 62 mins Year: 1946 Tags: Action, Crime, Dick Tracy, Mystery |
Dick Tracy Vs Cueball Trivia - Did You Know?Director Gorden Douglas had his share of clunkers, and has at times expressed dissatisfaction with his career (he once said, "Don't try to watch all the films I've directed; it would turn you off movies forever"), he was responsible for some of the more enjoyable films of the 1950s and 1960s. One of his most successful films was also one of Frank Sinatra's best - The Detective (1968), a tough, gritty and controversial (for the time) crime drama about a homicide cop who gets involved in a murder case involving wealthy and powerful homosexual men. Related FilmsDick Tracy's Dilemma | Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome | Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | D.O.A. | Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon | |
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