Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.9/10   

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Escritores:

Chester Gould (comic strip)
Luci Ward (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 diciembre 1946 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Crimen | Misterio

Frase comercial:

HE'S TERRIFIC! Your Favorite Crime Crusader!

Plot:

Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball...

Plot Keywords:

Dick Tracy | Diamond | Versus In Title | Strangulation | Low Budget Film

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Better Than a Circus Side-Show

Reparto

Morgan Conway	...	Dick Tracy
Anne Jeffreys	...	Tess Trueheart / Blythe Belmonte
Lyle Latell	...	Pat Patton
Rita Corday	...	Mona Clyde, Sparkle's Secretary
Ian Keith	...	Vitamin Flintheart
Dick Wessel	...	Harry 'Cueball' Lake
Douglas Walton	...	Percival Priceless, Antique Store Owner
Esther Howard	...	Filthy Flora, Dripping Dagger Proprietor
Joseph Crehan	...	Chief Brandon
Byron Foulger	...	Simon Little, Sparkle's Diamond Cutter
Jimmy Crane	...	Junior Tracy
Milton Parsons	...	Higby, Clerk at Priceless'
Skelton Knaggs	...	Rudolph, Little's Assoicate

Duración:

62 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Clasificación:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) (1990) | USA:Approved

Compañía:

RKO Radio Pictures

Trivialidades:

Ian Keith as "Vitamin Flintheart" is doing a wicked but devastatingly accurate impersonation of John Barrymore.

Errores:

Continuidad: Keep an eye on an early scene when Mona Clyde places a note under the shop door to the Priceless Antiques shop. It appeared that she placed it entirely under the door, but when Tracy comes by to retrieve it, a large portion of the note is visible before it's picked up on the other side.

Citas:

[Tess observes four beautiful women leave Dick Tracy's office]
Tess: I can see that police work might be *very* interesting.
Dick Tracy: Now, Tess, those were policewomen.
Vitamin Flintheart: Policewomen? Ha! A man is confronted with jeopardy from all sides.

Conexiones de Película:

Seguido por Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Better Than a Circus Side-Show

So where else would viewers see a friendly neighborhood dive called The Dripping Dagger, replete with a gleaming graphic of blood falling from a wicked-looking stabber. Sort of whets the old desire to drop in for a drink and maybe a piece of unelective surgery. Pretty good Tracy tongue-in-cheek. These programmers were always played straight, but the outlandish names tip off the real intent. Tracy's trying to track down a murderous jewel thief whose shaved head resembles that of a new-born. In those days, pure baldies were a rarity unlike today's hairless male fashion. Great cast that includes such visual eccentrics as the sepulchral Milton Parsons and the unfortunate Skelton Knaggs whose cratered face peering through a magnifying lens would frighten Frankenstein. But stealing the show is blowzy old Esther Howard who looks like she's been on a 60 year bender, and acts like a 60-year old Mike Tyson. So when she backs down even the burly strongman Cueball, we believe it. Actually, these entries get their appeal from the parade of human eccentrics that populate them. To me, however, the biggest mystery is why Tracy doesn't spend more time at home with the very uneccentric looking Tess Trueheart (Anne Jeffries) who is enough to turn any man's head, square-jawed cop or not.