Dick Tracy aims to bring down a criminal family unit, headed up by the merciless Pa Stark.
Having ....endured the previous movie, I have put off watching this one for about five years I guess, so today was the day I took the cellophane off the dvd.
You could easily dismiss this film as nonsensical and cheap, but in my review I've tried to partly consider what audiences way back in 1938 would have thought, and what the alternatives would have been.
It's very raw, but there are lots of action sequences, and it's a good old fashioned story of the good guys taking on the baddies.
Some of the dialogue has to be heard to be believed, some of it will have you hiding behind a cushion.
At this early stage, I don't think I could suggest that Ralph Byrd is my idea of Dick Tracy, but I'm not sure if that's down to the actor, or the script, he'd of course play the character for a long time.
6/10.
Having ....endured the previous movie, I have put off watching this one for about five years I guess, so today was the day I took the cellophane off the dvd.
You could easily dismiss this film as nonsensical and cheap, but in my review I've tried to partly consider what audiences way back in 1938 would have thought, and what the alternatives would have been.
It's very raw, but there are lots of action sequences, and it's a good old fashioned story of the good guys taking on the baddies.
Some of the dialogue has to be heard to be believed, some of it will have you hiding behind a cushion.
At this early stage, I don't think I could suggest that Ralph Byrd is my idea of Dick Tracy, but I'm not sure if that's down to the actor, or the script, he'd of course play the character for a long time.
6/10.