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Follow Tracy's thrilling adventures... Step back in time with the iconic detective, Dick Tracy, in this restored and colorized edition of the 1945 classic film.
- 61 min
- 685
- Cinema Gems Restored
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick in early 15 chapter Republic serial...
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- Classic Hollywood Movies
The 1945 film version of Dick Tracy is titled "Dick Tracy" and was directed by William Berke. This film is a feature adaptation rather than a serial, providi...
- It Was Originally called Plainclothes Tracy.
- It Depicted The First Comic Strip Murder.
- The Strip Was Criticized For Being Too violent.
- Gould Immersed Himself in Police Techniques.
- Readers Took The Death of Villain Flattop Very Seriously.
- He Went to The Moon.
- He Once Grew A Mustache.
- He Cooperated with The Real FBI to Solve Real cases.
- He Almost Got A Divorce.
- He Found The Missing Little Orphan Annie.
After taking art correspondence courses as a teenager, Pawnee, Oklahoma native Chester Gould decided that one way to get rich would be to create a comic strip that would be syndicated all over the country. Early attempts like Radio Cats were “strictly stinkeroo,” he recalled. Eventually, Gould—who had moved to Chicago—decided that in order to stand...
Strips of the early 20th century were almost exclusively humorous in nature; even police were depicted as slightly buffoonish. Dick Tracy may have been the first attempt at a serious serialized drama on the funny pages. When Patterson accepted the pitch, he suggested to Gould that Tracy become a detective as a result of crime hitting close to home....
Even people unfamiliar with Dick Tracy have at least some passing knowledge of its colorful library of villains: Pruneface, Flyface, the Mole, Flattop, the Brow. Fearing readers might tire of villains, Gould killedthem off with regularity—and in some astonishingly violent ways. The Brow was impaled on a flagpole; a rabid dog attacked one, while ano...
While much of Tracy was sensational in nature—few actual cops relied on video watches or almost exclusively hunted disfigured crooks—Gould still wanted to portraypolice work as accurately as he could. The artist took courses in ballistics, fingerprinting, forensics, and other procedural techniques to remain current on the latest investigative tools...
A flat-headed criminal, Flattop spent several weeks in 1944 facing off against Tracy before a Gould-ish ugly death by drowning and an unceremonious burial in a field. He was a charming killer, though, and readers took his demise to heart. According to Life, Gould got telegrams from people offering to “claim” his body, and the strip’s syndicate offi...
Despite its grounded depictions of police work, Gould wasn’t above inserting a bit of comic frivolity into his strip. At the height of the Space Race in the 1960s, Gould began a series where Tracy’s police force devised a method of traveling to the moon to battle space crime. Somewhat derisively known as the “moon period,” Tracy spent time in outer...
As reactionary as the strip had been to 1960s politics, Gould doubled down in the 1970s. Hoping to contemporize the square Tracy for hipper audiences, the artist depictedthe detective with sideburns and a mustache. He even gained a new partner: “Groovy” Grove, a with-it detective.
In a rare instance of fictional law enforcement getting involved in real cases, in 1999 the FBI worked with the then-current Dick Tracycreative team of Mike Kilian and Dick Locher to publicize real criminals in the strip. (Gould died in 1985.) Top 10 Most Wanted fugitives were profiled in the hopes someone might recognize them. In 2002, the strip d...
Tracy spent 18 years engaged to Tess Trueheart before finally marrying her in 1949. After 45 years of wedded bliss, the couple nearly got a divorce in 1994: Tess was apparently fed up with Tracy’s long hours and unwavering commitment to law enforcement and served him with papers. Deemed a publicity stunt, the couple reconciledafter taking a vacatio...
Little Orphan Annie ended its comic strip run in 2010 with the title character believed missing in Guatemala. Since both characters are owned by Tribune Media Services, it was only fitting that Dick Tracy was summoned to find her. The detective began his search in mid-2014, eventually findingAnnie being held on a private island that September.
Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and masked mystery villain the Spider/the Lame One (both names are used) and his Spider Ring. [3] In the process of committing 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.
Jun 15, 2020 · When Dick Tracy burst onto screens in June 1990, it was heralded as the heir to the previous summer’s comics-to-page blockbuster throne, Batman.
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Jun 15, 2015 · Beatty stars as hero Detective Dick Tracy, who is constantly up to his ears in crime, thanks to a city overrun by literally cartoonish baddies, like rising mob star Alphonse “Big Boy” Caprice...
