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Dick Tracy's Dilemma - Movie Review |
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Dick Tracy is a comic strip detective and a popular character in American pop culture. The character of Dick Tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely ugly villains. Dick Tracy was created by cartoonist Chester Gould in 1931 for a newspaper comic strip also entitled Dick Tracy. Chester Gould introduced a raw violence to comic strips, reflecting the violence of 1930s Chicago. Gould also did his best to keep up with the latest in crime fighting techniques and, while Tracy often ends a case in a shootout, he uses forensic science, advanced gadgetry, and plain hard thinking to track the bad guy down. It has been suggested that this comic strip was the first example of the police procedural mystery story. The strip's villains are arguably the strongest appeal of the story. Tracy's world is decidedly black and white where the bad guys are sometimes so evil, their very flesh is deformed to announce their sins to the world. In Dick Tracy's Dilemma, Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.
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Dick Tracy's Dilemma - Cast & Crew |
| Directed by: John Rawlins Written by: Chester Gould, Robert Stephen Brode Starring: Jack Lambert, Kay Christopher, Lyle Latell, Ralph Byrd Crew: Frank Redman, Herman Schlom, Marvin Coil Copyright: Public Domain Format: Black + White Duration: 60 mins Year: 1947 Tags: Crime, Dick Tracy, Mystery |
Dick Tracy's Dilemma Trivia - Did You Know?The strip, which made its debut appearance on October 4, 1931, was distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977. Chester Gould won the Reuben Award for the strip in 1959 and 1977. In 1995, the strip was one of twenty included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps. Related FilmsDick Tracy Meets Gruesome | Dick Tracy Vs Cueball | Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | D.O.A. | Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon | |
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