Dick Tracy

4h 50min

Crime

Action

Comedy

Thriller

Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of 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. The Spider's minion, Dr. Moloch, performs a brain operation on Gordon Tracy to turn him evil, making him secretly part of the Spider Ring and so turning brother against brother.

Cast

Ralph Byrd

Ralph Byrd

Dick Tracy
Kay Hughes

Kay Hughes

Gwen Andrews
Smiley Burnette

Smiley Burnette

Mike McGurk
Carleton Young

Carleton Young

Gordon Tracy, after
Fred Hamilton

Fred Hamilton

Steve Lockwood
Francis X. Bushman

Francis X. Bushman

Chief Clive Anderson
John Dilson

John Dilson

Ellery Brewster [Chs. 1, 12]
Richard Beach

Richard Beach

Gordon Tracy, before [Chs. 1, 12]
Byron Foulger

Byron Foulger

Korvitch [Chs. 1, 12]
Roscoe Gerald

Roscoe Gerald

Power Co. Watchman-Thug (uncredited)

Release date

20th Feb 1937

Status

Released

Spoken languages

English